The Government Officially Forms A TPPU Transaction Task Force For IDR 349 Trillion, Legal Transactions At The Ministry Of Finance

Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs And Chairman Of The National Coordination Committee For Prevention And Eradication Of Money Laundering (KNPP TPPU), Mahfud MD/ANTARA

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said the government had officially formed a task force to oversee the handling and settlement of alleged money laundering (TPPU) in odd transactions worth IDR 349 trillion at the Ministry of Finance. Mahfud, who is also the Chairman of the TPPU National Coordination Committee for Prevention and Eradication (KNPP), said that the formation of the task force was in accordance with the results of the TPPU KNPP Committee meeting on April 10, 2023 which was then submitted to the DPR RI through a hearing at Commission III of the DPR RI a day later. "So I say that today the government has formed the task force in question," Mahfud said at a press conference at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Office, Jakarta, Antara, Wednesday, May 3. The task force functions to supervise and evaluate the handling of the analysis report (LHA), examination report (LHP), and information on alleged money laundering offenses. Mahfud explained that the TPPU Task Force consisted of a steering team, implementing team, and a working group. "The steering team consists of three leaders of the TPPU Committee," he said. Three people led by the KNPP TPP TPPU are Mahfud MD as Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs and Chairman of the KNPP TPPU Committee, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto as Deputy Chair of the KNPP TPPU Committee, as well as Head of the Center for Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis (PPATK) Ivan Yustiavandana as Secretary of the KNPP TPPU Committee. Mahfud then explained that the implementing team of the TPPU Task Force consisted of 10 people chaired by Deputy III for Legal and Human Rights Coordination of the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, Deputy V for Community Security and Order Coordination as deputy chairman, and Director of Analysis and Examination I of PPATK as secretary. Meanwhile, seven members of the TPPU Task Force implementing team are the Director General (Dirjen) of the Ministry of Finance (Kemenkeu), the Director General of Customs and Excise of the Ministry of Finance, the Inspector of the Ministry of Finance, the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes at the Indonesian Attorney General's Office, the Deputy Head of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, the Deputy for Counter Intelligence of the State Intelligence Agency, and the Deputy for Analysis and Audit of PPATK. "Then in carrying out their duties the implementing team is assisted by work groups, where there are two working groups," said Mahfud. Mahfud further explained that the TPPU Task Force involved 12 experts from the field of money laundering offenses, corruption, economy, customs, excise, and taxation in carrying out their duties. However, he emphasized that the 12 experts would not participate in handling the alleged money laundering offenses because they were not investigators based on the applicable law. "So he will not go directly to the case, but he will provide input not to his entity, but will later become a consultant and so on if there are problems that need special attention," he said. The 12 experts are former Head of PPATK Yunus Husein, former Head of PPATK Muhammad Yusuf, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) academic Rimawan Pradiptyo, UGM academic Wuri Handayani UGM, former KPK leader Laode M. Syarif, and professor of the University of Indonesia Topo Santoso.

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