KPK Allows Suspected Bribe to Audit to Apply for Justice Collaborator as Long as They Uncover Other Actors

Acting Director of KPK Investigation Achmad Taufik Husein (Tsa Tsia/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) invites Augusz Dwianggara, who is a suspect in alleged bribery of conditioning audit results in the Muara Enim Regency Government, to apply as a justice collaborator.

Acting Director of Investigation of the KPK, Achmad Taufik Husein, said each suspect indeed has the right to be a justice collaborator.

"We appreciate it because it is a right, please use it," Taufik told reporters at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, quoted on Thursday, July 23.

Even so, Taufik said, the mechanism for justice collaborators has now changed in Law Number 20 of 2025 concerning the Criminal Code (KUHP). The term is now changed to crown witness.

The status as a crown witness, he continued, can also only be given if it meets the requirements.

"Among others, for example, what kind of witnesses are provided by the suspect, whether they then reveal it in detail, openly, and to other parties," he said.

Taufik said this mechanism actually had a heavy position. However, there is compensation that can be given in the prosecution stage if it is fulfilled.

"So this crown witness is actually in a difficult position. But it will also be compensated by the easing of the sentencing demands from the parties concerned if the conditions for the testimony are really revealing or making clear or making clear a criminal event that is being investigated," explained Taufik.

As previously reported, the KPK has named five people as suspects in the alleged bribery case related to the audit of the 2025 Fiscal Year Government of Muara Enim Regency (Pemkab) financial statements. They are the Head of the BPK Inspection Team for South Sumatra Representative Titin Rita Lestari (TTN), private party Augus Dwianggara (AGG), Muara Enim Regent Edison (EDS), Director of PT Millenium Solusi Abadi Fika (FK), and Marketing PT Millenium Solusi Abadi Cory Erin Hardi (CRH).

In the construction of the case revealed by the KPK, the alleged request for a fee of around IDR 1.6 billion was said to have emerged to change the findings of the BPK audit on the financial statements of the Muara Enim Regency Government.

This matter began when the examination of the financial statements of the Muara Enim Regency Government for the 2025 Fiscal Year was carried out by the South Sumatra BPK Representative. From the audit process, it was found that the results of the examination exceeded the materiality limit and were then included in the Audit Report (LHP).

Furthermore, the management of the audit results was allegedly carried out through a private party named Augus Dwianggara alias Angga. In the process, coordination with Titin Rita Lestari as the Technical Controller of the BPK audit was also allegedly carried out to follow up on changes to the audit results.

To meet the fee requirements, funds from the private sector that worked on the procurement project of smart boards in the Muara Enim Education and Culture Office were allegedly involved. Of the collected money, some were said to have been distributed to a number of parties through two distribution clusters in Jakarta and South Sumatra.