Allegations Of Corruption At The Sumbawa Hospital Continue To Roll And Enter The Prosecutor's Investigation

Regional General Hospital Sumbawa (ANTARA)

The alleged corruption case in the management of funds from the Regional Public Service Agency at the Sumbawa Regional General Hospital (RSUD), West Nusa Tenggara, is being investigated by the prosecutor's office.

The head of the Sumbawa District Attorney's Office, Adung Sutriangono, when confirmed by telephone in Mataram, Tuesday, confirmed that the handling of the case has now entered the stage of investigating the special criminal field.

"In accordance with the results of the case title on Monday, we have determined the handling of the alleged corruption case at the Sumbawa Hospital to enter the investigation stage," said Adung as quoted by ANTARA, February 28.

The consideration of this case is in the investigation stage because the prosecutor's office has found indications of an unlawful act.

"Yes, there has been a PMH (against the law), so an investigation has been launched. However, this is still a general investigation, not yet a matter of state losses," he said.

Following up on the increase in the status of the handling, added Adung, investigators have compiled an agenda for examination of witnesses who have previously provided information at the investigation stage.

To this day, six witnesses have been questioned by investigators. They came from a number of employees of the Sumbawa Hospital and their project implementers partners.

"So, this examination will continue. Not only among hospitals, there will be parties related to fund management," he said.

Kejari Sumbawa menangani kasus ini berdasarkan adanya laporan dari masyarakat. Tindak lanjut laporan, jaksa melakukan kajian dari dokumen kelengkapan laporan yang menguatkan indikasi pidana dalam pengelolaan dana BLUD tahun 2021.

This report was previously revealed to have entered the NTB Prosecutor's Office in November 2021. In the report, it was outlined regarding the procurement of goods and services project with a budget of more than one billion being auctioned using a direct appointment mechanism.

The projects include the procurement of DRX Ascend System medical devices which amounted to Rp1.49 billion, there was also a mobile DR worth Rp1.04 billion.

According to the reporter, there are allegations of a mechanism that collides with the Sumbawa Regent Regulation Number: 16/2015 concerning PBJ at the BLUD Sumbawa Hospital and Presidential Decree Number: 16/2018 concerning Government PBJ.

Then, there are also irregularities in the budget for health services (jaspelkes). There are allegations of abuse of authority in employee remuneration.

In the report, the director of the Sumbawa Hospital for the 2021 BLUD fund management period is suspected to have also received privileges with a quota of 5 percent of the total Jaspelkes.

The legal basis also refers to the Regulation of the Director of the Sumbawa Hospital Number: 82/2021 concerning the Distribution of Jaspel at the Sumbawa Hospital.

In the description of the regulations, the amount of Jaspelkes is for the leadership element with a remuneration from Jaspelkes 5 percent which is divided again into 3 percent for the performance of the director; 0.77 percent for the performance of the Head of TU; 0.73 percent for the performance of the Head of Service; and 0.5 percent for the performance of the Head of Nursing.

In fact, this Jaspelkes arrangement must refer to Permendagri Number: 79/2018 concerning BLUD which contains Regulations on Remuneration Distribution which use regional head regulations, not RSUD director regulations.