Had Mangkir, Bengkulu Attorney General's Office, Threatens Paksa, A Witness To The Palm Oil Replanting Corruption Case

Head of Bengkulu Attorney General's Office Investigation Section, Danang Prasetyo Dwiharjo/ANTARA

BENGKULU - The Bengkulu High Prosecutor's Office (Kejati) will forcibly pick up witnesses who have been summoned for hearing at the time of the trial for alleged corruption in replanting or replanting of North Bengkulu Palm Oil in 2019-2020. The witnesses who were not present at the trial even though they had been properly summoned were from PT. JOB, the Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS), the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Land Agency (BPN) Argamakmur. "A number of these parties have been summoned to attend the trial, the first summons of the witnesses were not present, then the prosecutor sent a second summons to attend the trial to be heard for their testimony in the case," said Bengkulu Attorney General's Office Investigation Head Danang Prasetyo Dwiharjo in Bengkulu City, Thursday. Therefore, he appealed to the witnesses to fulfill the summons and attend the trial, because if three times they are properly summoned they are still not present, forced efforts will be made. "If you are not present during the time you are properly summoned three times, there will be law itself, you can be forcibly picked up, and to avoid this, we hope that the witnesses will attend the trial. If they do not attend without clear reasons, there will be separate actions," he said. It is known that there are four defendants who are currently still walking, the four people are AS as Chairman of the Rindang Jaya Farmers Group, ED (Secretary of the Rindang Jaya Farmers Group), SO (Behara of the Rindang Jaya Farmers Group), and PR (Head of Tanjung Muara Village) who are still undergoing trial. During the trial, the Public Prosecutor (JPU) charged the four people with articles 2 and 3 of the Republic of Indonesia Law number 20 of 2001 concerning the eradication of corruption in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph 1 to 1 of the Criminal Code with a penalty of 20 years in prison. Previously, the Bengkulu Attorney General's Office confiscated Rp13 billion from four suspects in the alleged corruption case of replanting palm oil in North Bengkulu Regency in 2019-2020. Based on the results of the BPKP audit, which found a loss of more than Rp. 9 billion, it came from the falsification of documents carried out by the four suspects and had nothing to do with Rp. 13 billion which was confiscated by the investigative team from the Rindang Jaya Farmers Group account some time ago.