Make Sure Not To Intervene In The Search Of The KPK At The Ministry Of Social Affairs, Minister Risma: Because I Don't Know The Problem

Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini is known as Risma. (doc. Ministry of Social Affairs)

Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Tri Rismaharini emphasized that he would not intervene in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) office is known to have just been searched by the KPK regarding the investigation into the alleged corruption case of social assistance (bansos) for distributing rice in 2020.

"Because I know that I can't intervene anywhere there, because I don't know the problem," said the Minister of Social Affairs in Jakarta, Wednesday, May 24, quoted by Antara.

Social Minister Risma confirmed that KPK investigators came to her office and asked for permission to conduct a search in the room of the Secretary of the Directorate General of Social Empowerment (Ditjen Dayasos) of the Ministry of Social Affairs.

He admitted that he read the news of the KPK search event, only limited to an examination at the Ministry of Social Affairs Office regarding the alleged corruption in the distribution of social assistance related to BUMN subsidiary Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR) Logistics.

Social Minister Risma claimed that the case in the KPK investigation was not during her tenure as a leader at the Ministry of Social Affairs.

However, according to him, there are irregularities in the alleged corruption of the rice social assistance for beneficiary families (KPM) of the Family Hope Program (PKH) in 2020. The affairs that should be under the authority of the Directorate of Social Protection and Security (Ditjen Linjamsos), are instead a case at the Directorate General of Social Affairs.

"So if you ask where the problem is, I don't know. Only what I know is strange, why did the money at Dayassos participate. But I don't know what the case happened," he said.

Social Minister Risma reiterated that after being inaugurated as Minister of Social Affairs, he carried out the President's mandate so that assistance for KPMs was not distributed in the form of goods, but with money.

The KPK is currently investigating a case of alleged corruption in rice social assistance for KPM PKH in 2020-2021 at the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia. As a result, the KPK named a number of suspects, one of whom was the former President Director of BUMN Bhanda Ghara Reksa (BGR) Logistics Kuncoro Wibowo.