Polda Kaltara Holds Tarakan KSOP Officials As Suspects

Head of the Sea Transportation Traffic Section of the Port Authority and Port Authority (KSOP) Class III Tarakan City with the initials IS/ANTARA

North Kalimantan Police (Kaltara) detained the Head of the Sea Transport Traffic Section of the Class III Port Authority and Port Authority (KSOP) Tarakan City with the initials IS at the Kaltara Police Headquarters in Tanjung Selor, Bulungan, as a suspect in an alleged extortion case. "Based on the investigator's consideration, the first 20 days of detention was carried out against suspect IS, who is the Head of Sea Transport Traffic, KSOP Tarakan III," said Director of Criminal Investigation of the Kaltara Police, Kombes Hendy F. Kurniawan in a short message received by Antara in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, Friday, October 11. The determination and detention of the IS suspect is related to alleged criminal acts of extortion or gratification in reporting Warta Arrivals and Warta Departures of the Ship. Initially, IS was examined as a witness during a hand arrest operation (OTT) at the Tarakan Class III KSOP Office, last Tuesday night. IS was later named a suspect based on the testimony of witnesses and evidence that investigators had obtained. Hendy said, with the current economic conditions and in accordance with President Joko Widodo's direction, the summary of the bureaucracy and savings of expenditures in the distribution of goods received more attention so that commodity prices in Kaltara would be stable and not subject to unnecessary costs. Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), inflation in Kaltara Province in October 2022 was 4.11. With the geographical conditions of the Province of Kaltara which requires sea or water transportation, one of the contributors to the high price of commodities is the presence of illegal levies (extortion) on these transportations. "We received complaints from several sea transportation entrepreneurs about extortion extortion by individuals who were already troubling, so we carried out monitoring and prosecution," said Hendy. The arrest and search operation was carried out by a team of investigators from the North Kalimantan Police Ditreskrimsus quickly so as not to interfere with the arrival and departure warta services.