Saut Situmorang Visits Commission III Of The House Of Representatives Encourages BTS Corruption To Be Completely Investigated, Dasco: Mechanisms In The Technical Commission

Former Deputy Chairperson of the KPK Saut Situmorang. (Between)

JAKARTA - Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, responded to the arrival of former Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Saut Situmorang to Commission III of the DPR to discuss the Base Transceiver Station (BTS) corruption case.

"I just received information that the person concerned will make a letter to Commission III," said Dasco at the Senayan Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Thursday, January 8, which was confiscated by Antara.

Dasco admitted that he had no problem with Saut's arrival to Commission III of the DPR. Because, he considered that such conditions already had a mechanism to regulate it.

"Later, the mechanism in the technical commission will then be carried out in accordance with the rules (tatib) in the DPR," he explained.

He added that his party would first hold a meeting. Then, if there are inputs for the report, then the mechanism is in Commission III of the DPR.

"Regarding the follow-up, there is also a mechanism for ourselves that we will submit to Commission III," he added.

Meanwhile, Saut Situmorang visited Commission III of the DPR to discuss that the BTS corruption problem be resolved holistically or completely. Saut visited Commission III of the DPR at the Senayan Parliament Complex, Jakarta today, Thursday 8 June.

"I am now going to Commission III for the same case. He (Chairman of MAKI Bonyamin) approached Commission I, I approach him to Commission III. The point is that we want this BTS corruption case to be resolved holistically," said Saut.

He did not want the settlement of the case to only look at someone's background. Therefore, his visit to Commission III of the DPR to encourage the DPR to have a dialogue with the Attorney General's Office (AGO) so that the alleged BTS corruption case becomes clear.

"We have to open this together. If I quote the language Pacul (Bambang Wuryanto, Chairman of Commission III of the DPR), the Sambo case is also clear after he had a dialogue with the prosecutor's office. So, we have to do the same dialogue model," he said.

Previously, the investigating team of the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General's Office (Kejagung) examined six witnesses in the investigation of the alleged corruption case in the provision of BTS infrastructure and supporting infrastructure for the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo) for the 2020-2022 period. Two of them were non-active aides to the Minister of Communication and Information Johnny G. Plate.

In the corruption case that cost the state finances Rp8.3 trillion, investigators have named seven suspects, namely Anang Achmad Latif (AAL) as the President Director of BAKTI Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Gahole Menak (GMS) as the President Director of PT Mora Telematika Indonesia, Yohan Suryanto (YS) as a Human Development (HUDEV) expert at the University of Indonesia in 2020, Mukti Ali (MA) a suspect from PT Huwaei Technology Investment and Irwan Hermawan (IH) as Commissioner of PT Solitchmedia Synergy.

Then, Johnny G. Plate and Windi Purnama, as confidants of the suspect Irwan Hermawan (IH).