Many Cases Including Allegations Of KONI Corruption Still Investigating, West Papua Police Add Investigative Personnel

Illustration of the search was carried out by investigators. (Between-Aprilio A)

PAPUA - West Papua Police have added investigators to the work unit of the Special Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dit Reskrimsus) to accelerate the investigation of a number of alleged corruption cases that are being handled. Including allegations of corruption at the Indonesian National Sports Committee (KONI) West Papua Province.

"All cases of alleged corruption are in the process (of development), only we are still limited to human resources (HR), so I am adding new personnel," said West Papua Police Chief Inspector General Daniel TM Silitonga in Manokwari, West Papua, Friday 18 November.

Daniel added that the addition of investigative personnel has attracted the attention of the Kapolda as an evaluation of the progress of the investigation of a number of alleged corruption cases that have not been upgraded to the investigation stage until the end of 2022.

"After strengthening the investigative team, I will check one by one the cases handled this year," he said.

As for the alleged corruption case at the West Papua KONI, it was investigated based on reports from the public who entered the police.

In the development of his investigation, the Director of Special Criminal Investigation (Dir Reskrimsus) of the West Papua Police, Kombespol Romilus Tam, said 24 witnesses had been questioned. They are administrators of the West Papua KONI including daily chairman and treasurer.

He said that a number of supporting documents on the use of the budget to accountability reports (LPj) had been pocketed by investigators and were in the process of developing considering the use of West Papua KONI funds in three years of the 2019-2021 budget reached hundreds of billions of rupiah. West Papua, sports funding, procurement activities, as well as other activities related to the flow of West Papua KONI funds in the three fiscal years. "We focus from below, if all the evidence is complete and information, then the general chairman of KONI West Papua will also be questioned because the use of KONI organizational funds has one connection with another," said Romilus.