After Raiding 13 Locations, Police Yet to Name Suspects in Coal Corruption Case
The Jakarta Metropolitan Police held a press conference on Friday evening (10/7) to provide an update on the investigation into alleged corruption cases involving coal, ASABRI, and Krakatau Steel, following raids on at least 13 locations in Jakarta and Sentul, Bogor Regency. During the press conference, the Head of Public Relations for the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Senior Commissioner Budi Hermanto, stated that no suspects have yet been named and announced. He only mentioned that the announcement of suspects in the case would be made in the near future. He did not specify exactly when the schedule for announcing the suspects would be.
"We will deliver the announcement of suspects in this case at the next stage. Currently, our investigators are still conducting in-depth examinations," he said in response to journalists’ questions at the Jakarta Metropolitan Police headquarters in South Jakarta. "This announcement of suspect determination will be delivered in the near future," he added. During the press conference, he was seated at the same table as the Director of Enforcement at the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps, Brigadier General Robertus Yohanes De Deo, and the Director of Special Criminal Investigation for the Jakarta Metropolitan Police, Senior Commissioner Victor Dean Mackbon.
Budi stated that investigators have so far examined 15 witnesses in the case involving alleged corruption and money laundering related to the coal and ASABRI matters. The witnesses include two employees of de’Clan Signature café in Cipete, South Jakarta; four employees of Koin Money Changer in Cipete, South Jakarta, with the initials DH, HH, ER, and RB; one witness from a raided location in Gandaria, South Jakarta, with the initials DR; a witness from a raided location at Pacific Place mall with the initials TK; a driver for DR identified as T; a witness named NH; a witness from a raid conducted the previous night named MIL; and two security guards from Sentul identified as R and A.
Budi emphasised that the joint investigation team from the Jakarta Metropolitan Police’s Special Criminal Investigation Directorate and the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps is continuing to deepen its probe into the three corruption cases. Previously, the Head of the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, explained that three corruption cases are being handled through a joint investigation mechanism with the Jakarta Metropolitan Police. These cases involve corruption and money laundering in the legal handling of the PLN coal matter, the ASABRI case from 2020 to 2025, and the alleged corruption in the debt settlement process of PT CBS to PT KNI, a subsidiary of Krakatau Steel, from 2020 to 2025. In relation to these cases, investigators seized evidence including cash in various currency denominations, such as US and Singapore dollars, as well as tens of kilogrammes of gold bullion.