KPK Questions Three Civil Servants Over Rp900 Billion Covid-19 Social Aid Corruption

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned three civil servants in the case of alleged corruption of President's Social Assistance for handling Covid-19 in the Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi (Jabodetabek) region at the Ministry of Social Affairs in the 2020 fiscal year. Investigators also seized several documents from these three witnesses.

The three witnesses are the Head of Legal Aid Section of the Legal Division and Compliance of the Logistics Management Agency (Bulog) M. Gilang Sasi Kirono, the Head of the Finance Division of the Directorate General of Social Protection and Social Security (Linjamsos) Diding, and the civil servant of the Ministry of Social Affairs Robbin Saputra.

The examination was conducted at the Red and White Building of the KPK on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. "The witnesses were present," said KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo in a written statement on Wednesday, May 28, 2025.

During yesterday's examination, Budi stated that the investigators also seized documents related to the corruption case and deepened the witness's statement regarding these documents.

In this case, the KPK has named the President Director of PT Mitra Energi Persada (MEP) Ivo Wongkaren as a suspect. This suspect naming is part of the development of the social assistance distribution case involving the Minister of Social Affairs, Juliari Batubara, and several others.

Prior to becoming a suspect in this latest investigation, Ivo had actually been sentenced to eight years and six months in prison and fined Rp 1 billion, with an alternative of 12 months in prison, on June 10, 2024.

This President's Social Assistance corruption used the budget of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The budget was allocated since April 2020 to mitigate the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The difference is that the President's social assistance was distributed in a package featuring President Joko Widodo's image. The aid recipients received a basic necessities package each month containing rice, cooking oil, and biscuits.

KPK suspects that the project implementers manipulated the Rp 900 billion budget used for the social assistance procurement. In this President's social assistance corruption case, according to the KPK, the perpetrators reduced the quality of the basic necessities package. As a result, the value of the package received by the public does not match what the government had budgeted.

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