TPPU Task Force Highlight Accountability For Follow-up Handling PPATK Reports

The Money Laundering Crime Task Force (TPPU) highlighted the issue of weak accountability of institutions that received suspicious transaction reports from PPATK so that many problems stalled and were not handled properly.

Therefore, one of the experts who are members of the TPPU Task Force, Danang Widoyoko, has encouraged the accountability of government institutions to receive PPATK reports, especially regarding their follow-up to the report.

One basic problem is that there is no accountability. The proof is that the institutions that received the LHA (report of the results of the analysis) and the PPATK LHP (report of the results of the examination) did not report back to PPATK. So, some cases are said to be still being investigated, we will continue to pursue because reports have been reported since 2014 and 2015, but until now they are still being studied, meaning there is something," said Danang during a press conference conveying the progress of the TPPU Task Force's work virtually reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 8.

He explained that the TPPU Task Force needed a short time to investigate the follow-up of the 300 suspicious transaction reports that had been submitted by PPATK to the Ministry of Finance and law enforcement agencies, namely the police and the prosecutor's office. The total value of suspicious transactions from the 300 PPATK reports reached Rp. 349 trillion.

"So that's what we're doing, chasing some follow-up that hasn't been submitted to PPATK, and where we're after, and if we stop where the problem is. That's what we're after," said Danang, who is currently active as Secretary General of Transparency International Indonesia.

The TPPU Task Force formed last month by Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD is currently making 18 PPATK reports a priority for examination.

The Head of the TPPU Task Force Implementation Team, Sugeng Purnomo, said that the 18 reports were chosen because the aggregate value was significant, which reached Rp281.6 trillion.

"Of the 18 LHAs, LHPs, and information that we set as priority scales, the value reached Rp281.6 trillion. Therefore, it means that from Rp349 trillion the percentage has reached around 80 percent," said Sugeng.

Of the 18 reports, 10 of them are PPATK reports submitted to agencies at the Ministry of Finance. The reports are handled by the Working Group (Pokja) 1 of the TPPU Task Force.

"The details are from the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DJBC) there are four, then the Directorate General of Taxes there are three, and the remaining three information are presented by the Inspectorate General," he said.

Then, as many as eight reports have been submitted by PPATK to law enforcement officials, then the reports are the responsibility of the Pokja 2 of the TPPU Task Force.

In detail, as many as four reports were handled by the police and four reports were handled by the prosecutor's office.

The TPPU Task Force, which is supported by 12 experts in money laundering, corruption, economy, excise duty, taxation, and customs, has a working period until December 31, 2023 to investigate 300 suspicious transaction reports issued by PPATK.