Witness Calls The Position Of The Principal Of SMPN In Pemalang Defined By The Political Supporting Team Mukti Agung During The Pilkada

Documentation - Session with the defendant the inactive Regent Pemalang Mukti Agung Wibowo at the Semarang Corruption Court, Central Java/ANTARA

The witness at the trial of the defendant in the corruption crime of buying and selling positions at the Pemalang Regency Government, Central Java, Winarto, stated that the position of head of state junior high schools in the district was determined by a special team from the local Education and Culture Office. This was conveyed by Winarto, in the trial of the alleged sale and purchase of positions with the defendant inactive Regent Pemalang Mukti Agung Wibowo. The policy analyst for the Madya Expert for Facilities and Infrastructure of the Pemalang Regency Education and Culture explained that the special team contained political supporters of Mukti, including himself, when competing in the 2021 Pemalang Regency Pilkada. Winarto, who claimed to have been appointed as Head of the Facilities and Infrastructure Section of the Pemalang Education and Culture School, admitted that he had been asked to take care of the shift of the junior high school head by Mukti's confidant, Adi Jumal Widodo. On this request, Winarto then formed a team containing members of the Principal's Working Conference (MKKS) who were the winning team for Mukti during the 2021 Pilkada. "The principal of 66 junior high schools in Pemalang has been rotated," said Winarto during a trial at the Corruption Court at the Semarang District Court (PN), Antara, Monday, February 20. Of the 66 rotated junior high schools, he continued, some of them gave thanksgiving money to Mukti. The total money given by the head of junior high school through Adi Jumal Widodo reached Rp. 300 million. "It was handed over directly by the Head of the Education and Culture Office of Pemalang Regency Abdurrahman to Adi Jumal Widodo," he explained. In the trial led by Chief Judge Bambang Setyo Widjanarko, Winarto also admitted that he had given money worth Rp. 10 million for Mukti's needs. According to him, the money came from a budget sweep in early 2022 when no activities had yet been carried out. "It is taken from the allocation of food and drink money," he said. Mukti Agung Wibowo was charged with accepting bribes and gratuities related to promotion and transfer of positions in Pemalang Regency, which totaled Rp7.57 billion. The trial was held offline and online, where the defendant Mukti Agung Wibowo underwent trial from the KPK detention room in Jakarta.