History Of The Anas Urbaningrum Oath Willing To Be Hanged At Monas If Proven Corruption

JAKARTA - Positive narratives accompany the presence of the National Center for Education, Training and Sports Facilities (P3SON) Project in Hambalang, Bogor, West Java. The development was later widely known as the Hambalang Project. The project was hailed with many benefits.

Everything broke up when Nazaruddin exposed Hambalang's corruption. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) intervened. The KPK arrested a number of high-ranking Democratic Party officials. Anas Urbaningrum, especially. However, Anas felt not involved. He even took an oath of being willing to be hanged at Monas if it was proven corruption.

The presence of the Hambalang megaproject is full of dynamics. The project began to be initiated by the Directorate General (Ditjen) of Olaraga under the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2003. The desire to attend the Hambalang project is purely to present a center for education and quality sports.

In order to boost national sports achievements, he thought. From presenting dormitories to other sports facilities. However, when the Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora), Andi Mallarangeng held the project, his coverage was expanded in 2009.

The function of the Hambalang project has changed. Instead of just for the project to boost national achievements, Hambalang's presence is actually used to work on the achievements of Indonesian professional athletes in the international world.

This grandiose desire made the project budget, which was initially only Rp. 125 billion, change to Rp. 2.5 trillion. The circulation of large money actually brought problems. The gaps in corruption are actually wide open.

Mainly, the corruption committed by the elite party in power at that time, the Democratic Party. Especially when the former General Treasurer of the Democratic Party, Nazaruddin who was arrested in Colombia began to sing about party officials involved in the corruption of Hambalang in 2011.

The song Nazaruddin also made public attention towards the Democratic Party, which incidentally is the ruling party. His singing further adds to the belief that the Hambalang project has many irregularities.

Eggles are not only found in the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Technical recommendations for building construction are also not initialized by the Minister of Public Works, Djoko Kirmanto. Technical recommendations are only signed by director-level officials at the Ministry of Public Works.

The oddity was only discovered by the Ministry after the multi-year contract of the Hambalang project was approved. If one of these requirements is not fulfilled, the multi-year contract should be rejected. However, Agus Martowardojo (Minister of Finance) has never received a report regarding a number of shortcomings in the application for a multi-year contract budget," explained Hermien Y. Kleiden in Agus Martowardojo's book: Carrier of Change (2019).

The irregularities experienced by the Hambalang project were increasingly complete when the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) found irregularities in 2012. The name that Nazaruddin mentioned widely related to Hambalang was Anas Urbaningrum, who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party.

Nazaruddin said he received Rp100 billion from Hambalang. Of that amount, half of it was used to win Anas in the election of the General Chair of the Democratic Party. Then, the remaining money was divided by Nazaruddin to a number of members of the House of Representatives (DPR).

The statement made the KPK move. They then examined Anas regarding Hambalang and the source of the Democratic Party's funds in 2012. Anas also evaded. Instead, he called Nazaruddin's accusation a heinous slander. He did not feel that he had received a penny of Hambalang's money.

In fact, he tried to convince the general public that he was not involved. Anas dared to swear that he was willing to be hanged at the National Monument (Monas), if he was really involved in Hambalang's corruption. The oath made the whole of Indonesia excited. Moreover, Anas is seen as a person who holds his words.

The KPK took a stand. At its peak, Anas was named a suspect by the KPK on February 22, 2013. The determination was made because Anas was convincingly involved in the Hambalang case. This condition made Anas no longer heed his oath.

Even though all Indonesian people demand the implementation of Anas' oath. However, promises are just promises. The oath is similar to a political promise. There is no guarantee that the oath will be carried out. Anas was then imprisoned in Sukamiskin after a long process.

Anas was sentenced to 8 years in prison and a fine of Rp. 300 million, subsidiary to 3 months in prison. Only on March 11, 2023, he was released from prison.

The KPK's determination of the status of a suspect against Anas felt anticlimactic for the General Chairperson of PB HMI 1997-1999. Regarding the Hambalang project, Anas repeatedly denied his involvement. In fact, on March 9, 2012, at the DPP office of the Democratic Party, Jakarta, Anas stated: "Just one rupiah of Hambalang's corruption Anas, hanging Anas at Monas."

In the 2009 election, Anas together with Angelina Sondakh and Andi A. Mallarangeng appeared as star advertisements for the Democratic Party's campaign with the slogan: Say No to Corruption. But now some of the campaign's advertising stars are accused of corruption. Ironic indeed, "explained Paulus Mujiran in his writing in Tempo Magazine entitled Anticlimax Anas Urbaningrum (2013).