JAKARTA - The Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) reported alleged irregularities in the tender for the procurement of motor vehicle number plate (TNKB) material at the National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas Polri) to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) today.
The report was submitted by Boyamin Saiman who came directly to the KPK Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. He said there was an alleged practice of a consortium that led to a monopoly on the tender for projects worth hundreds of billions of rupiah in the 2013-2020 period.
"It is suspected that the procurement of the tender has a consortium, leading to monopoly," Boyamin told reporters, Friday, March 6.
The practice of the consortium, continued Boyamin, was allegedly controlled by only a few of the same parties. But, the process uses a number of different companies so that it is not sniffed out.
"I want this to be investigated by the KPK, at least in the prevention position, so that in the next period there is no model of alleged tender regulation, so that consortia and monopolies," he said.
Boyamin said that there were about five companies that participated in the tender based on his data. However, the ownership of these companies is suspected to be in the hands of only two people.
"Some of the shares actually belong to their wives, for example, there is a context that they all take complete," explained Boyamin.
This project is said to need attention because it is directly related to the service to the public who pay the state non-tax revenue (PNBP) every year for the manufacture of vehicle number plates.
"This Korlantas, right, in the past, there was still a simulator. There was a continuation, then there was another project in the form of TNKB, the number plate that those friends, that is, it paid the PNPB, which was about Rp. 10,000 to Rp. 20,000. It was held by a vendor, by a wholesaler," he said.
In addition, the alleged monopoly in the tender process has the potential to make prices unnatural because there is no healthy competition. Because, the value of the procurement tender every year reaches hundreds of billions of rupiah.
Even so, Boyamin admitted that he could not reveal the identity of the parties suspected of being behind the companies participating in the tender because they were still in the initial reporting stage to the KPK.
He also emphasized that the report submitted was not merely to encourage legal action but also prevention so that the practice would not be repeated.
"The tenders every year are also an average of Rp. 200 to Rp. 300 billion. The tender is the value of the tender. Yes, hundreds of billions," explained Boyamin.
"At least, I ask the KPK not only about enforcement, but also about prevention. So that later there will be no more monopoly tenders, no more consortium tenders that are regulated by groups that are only that," he concluded.
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