Jampidmil AGO Sita Rumah Milik AW The Suspect In The Alleged Corruption Case Of The Ministry Of Defense's Satellite

The confiscation of the suspect's house is suspected of corruption in the procurement of the Ministry of Defense's orbital slot satellite. (Photo: Doc. AGO)

JAKARTA - The Investigative Team for Connection with the Deputy Attorney General for Military Crimes (Jampidmil) of the Attorney General's Office confiscated assets belonging to suspect AW in the alleged corruption case in the procurement of satellite orbital slots of 123 deg East Longitude (BT) at the Ministry of Defense (Kemenhan) from 2012 to 2021.

The Head of the Attorney General's Office for Legal Information, Ketut Sumedana, said that this confiscation was based on the Order for Confiscation Number Print-296/PM.2/PMpd.1/10/2022 dated October 13, 2022.

"The assets carried out by the confiscation were in the form of 1 plot of land where there were buildings located on Jalan Dwijaya Raya Number 23, North Gandaria Village and South Gandaria Village, Cilandak District, South Jakarta City, DKI Jakarta Province covering an area of 1,508 square meters," said Ketut in his statement, Saturday, October 22.

Ketut said the confiscation had been carried out with the permission of the owner who was entitled to the name of Suspect AW and the brother of Suspect AW as the ruler of land and buildings.

"Furthermore, the team installed a board or sticker announcing the confiscation stating that the land and buildings were the objects of confiscation that had been officially and legally legally confiscated," he said.

This project is suspected to be problematic when the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kemkominfo) fulfills the Ministry of Defense's request to obtain an orbital slot management right of 123 degrees East Longitude to build a Satkomhan.

The alleged violation in the Ministry of Defense's satellite project was revealed by the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD on January 13.

He explained, on January 19, 2015, the Garuda-1 satellite had left orbit from the Orbit Slot 123 degrees East Longitude (BT) resulting in a management vacuum by Indonesia.

Under the regulations of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), countries that have received management rights will be given three years to refill the Orbit Slot. If this is not fulfilled, the right to manage the Orbit Slot will be automatically canceled and can be used by other countries.

To fill the vacancy in managing the orbital slot of 123 degrees east longitude, said Mahfud, the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) fulfilled the request of the Ministry of Defense (Kemhan) to obtain the right to manage the orbital slot of 123 degrees east longitude in order to build a defense communication satellite (Satkomhan).

The Ministry of Defense then made a lease contract for the Artemis Satellite which is a floater (temporary satellite filling the orbit), owned by Avanti Communication Limited (Avanti), on December 6, 2015, despite approval for the use of the orbital slot of 123 degrees east from Kominfo which was only issued on January 29, 2016.

However, the Ministry of Defense on June 25, 2018 returned the right to manage the orbital slot of 123 degrees east longitude to Kominfo.

On December 10, 2018, Kominfo issued a decision regarding the Right to Use Indonesian Satellite Filing at Orbit 123 Derajat for Garuda-2 and Nusantara-A1-A Satellite Filing to PT Dini Nusa Kusuma (PT DNK). However, PT DNK was unable to resolve the problem of the Ministry of Defense's residue in the procurement of Satkomhan.

Saat melakukan kontrak dengan Avanti tahun 2015, Kemhan belum memiliki anggaran untuk keperluan tersebut.

To build Satkomhan, the Ministry of Defense also signed contracts with Navayo, Airbus, Detente, Hogan Lovel, and Telesat within 2015-2016, whose budget in 2015 is also not yet available.

Meanwhile, in 2016, the budget was available but self-blocked by the Ministry of Defense.

Then, Avanti sued at the London Court of International Arbitration because the Ministry of Defense did not pay the satellite rental according to the value of the signed contract.

On July 9, 2019, an arbitration court ruled that resulted in the state having issued payments for the rental of the Artemis Satellite, arbitration fees, consultant fees, and satellite filing fees of IDR 515 billion.

The government has also just received a decision from the Singapore Arbitration regarding Navayo's lawsuit. The ruling states that the government is required to pay 20.9 million US dollars.

Three suspects have been named, namely one TNI and two civilians, namely Rear Admiral (Ret.) with the initials AP as the former Director General of Defense Forces of the Ministry of Defense from December 2013 to August 2016. Meanwhile, two other people are SCW and AW who are the President Director and President Commissioner of PT Dini Nusa Kesuma (DNK).