Profile Of Putra Siregar, PS Store Owner Who Was A Perfume Sales Officer

PS Store owner, Putra Siregar. (Photo: Instagram @ putrasiregarr17)

JAKARTA - The figure with the initials PS or Putra Siregar became a byword after being arrested by the Directorate General of Customs and Excise because of the possession and distribution of goods suspected of being illegal mobile phones or better known as black market cellphones (BM cellphones).

Putra Siregar is a businessman who trades various cellphone brands which are known to have very low prices, both new and used conditions. The cellphone business is booming, PS Store or Putra Siregar Store branches are spread across a number of major cities in Indonesia, including in Jakarta.

In accordance with the PS Store's slogan, "HP Officers at Popular Prices", cellphones such as iPhones can be sold by the shop at a much cheaper price than official stores.

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Putra Siregar is a celebrity who was once a busker, a traveling perfume salesperson, and a secondhand mobile phone trader in Batam. However, his cellphone sales business is getting more advanced and he now has hundreds of employees throughout Indonesia.

Putra Siregar's name is getting soaring because he often collaborates or endorses iPhones against several artists and celebrities. Artists who have been invited to work together, between Anji, Baim Wong and Paula Verhoeven, Atta Halilintar, to Raffi Ahmad.

In one personal Instagram upload, Putra even showed himself a photo with the owner of Alibaba and billionaire from China, Jack Ma. Not only that, Putra Siregar is also very active as a Youtuber.

Not only has a reputation among the capital's artists. But behind that, it turns out that Putra Siregar also has fame in Batam. Not to forget, PS is also known to often carry out social missions to the community.

Most recently, he plans to donate 350 animals to be donated throughout Indonesia to coincide with Eid al-Adha, 31 July. If this happens, the number of sacrificial animals donated by Putra will break the record for the Indonesian Museum of Records (MURI).

He managed to attract the attention of the public, the figure of Putra Siregar even managed to beat his business competitors in Batam City. The public prefers to buy products from PS compared to other competitors.

The man born in Siantar, who is 25 this year, started the cheap cell phone business a few years ago from scratch. Before getting into the cellphone business, Putra Siregar had also tasted the perfume sales profession to busker. Now Putra Siregar has hundreds of employees throughout Indonesia with the PS Store head office on Jalan Condet, East Jakarta.

As is known, the Jakarta Customs and Excise Office confiscated 190 illegal cellphones and cash proceeds from sales of Rp.61.3 million. All evidence and the suspect with the initials PS were handed over to the East Jakarta District Prosecutor for violating Article 103 letter d of Law Number 17 of 2006 concerning Customs.

The Customs Office of the Jakarta Regional Office also hands over the suspect's assets or income which were confiscated during the investigation stage. This evidence will be calculated as collateral for the payment of fines in the context of restoring state finances (Dhanapala Recovery) which consists of cash worth IDR 500 million, a house worth IDR 1.15 billion, and a bank account worth IDR 50 million.

The delivery of evidence and the suspect is a form of Customs' commitment to protect the public from the circulation of illegal goods and to secure state revenues.