SOUTH TANGERANG - The South Tangerang (Tangsel) District Attorney's Office (Kejari) has named the former headmaster of SMPN 17 (State Junior High School) South Tangerang, Marhaen Nusantara, as a suspect in the alleged corruption case against the 2020 Smart Indonesia Program (PIP) funds.
The determination of the suspect is based on the Suspect Determination Letter Number: B.2489/M.6.16/Fd.1/07/2022 dated 11 July 2022.
"The detention has been carried out for 20 days at the Youth Prison 2 A Tangerang. The detention will start from today for the next 20 days," said the South Tangerang District Attorney, Aliansyah in his statement, Monday, July 11.
Aliansyah also explained that the problem in the case of misappropriation of funds began with the assistance of the Education Financing Service Center DIPA through PIP for phase 5 with a stakeholder proposal of 1,109 students with a nominal amount of IDR 724,875,000 on July 13, 2020.
In the implementation of the distribution of PIP funds to students, it turned out that it was used by the suspect with the activity of withdrawing funds collectively at Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) KCP Indah Mas, Balaraja, Tangerang Regency in the amount of IDR 699 million.
"So it was carried out 11 times and 800 savings books from PIP recipient students. Meanwhile, 277 students were brought with a total of IDR 300 million," he said.
It is known, that due to the misuse of educational assistance for the poor, the state suffered a loss of IDR 699 million.
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On that basis, the former school headmaster was proven guilty of corruption in the Smart Indonesia program funds.
He revealed that the evidence that was secured was a document for withdrawing Marhaen's PIP funds from Bank BRI's Balarja branch, Tangerang Regency.
For his actions, the suspect was charged with violating the corruption law, Article 2 Paragraph 1 Number 20 of 2001 concerning criminal acts of corruption, Article 2 Paragraph 1 Number 20 of 2001, amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the eradication of criminal acts of corruption.
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