AGO: PT YAT Received IDR 1 Trillion Despite Lacking a Dealership
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) has revealed the involvement of a private corporation in the corruption scandal surrounding the National Nutrition Agency (BGN). The project to procure 21,801 electric motorcycles worth IDR 1.03 trillion to support the operational Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme was allegedly channelled to a company that lacked business infrastructure, making it effectively fictitious.
Investigators from the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) detected price mark-ups and vendor conditioning involving former BGN Head Dadan Hindayana and two former Deputy Heads, Sony Sonjaya and Lodewyk Pusung.
Acting Head of the Legal Information Centre at the AGO, Mochamad Jeffry, explained that this high-value project was handed to a company with the initials PT YAT, which was completely unqualified operationally. ‘The procurement of 21,801 electric motorcycles with a total value of IDR 1.03 trillion was paid to PT YAT, which did not meet the requirements as a vendor because it had no active dealership or workshop, and mark-ups were present,’ Jeffry said via written statement on Thursday.
Jeffry detailed that this procurement project materialised after the three former BGN leaders unlawfully intervened with the Commitment Making Officer (PPK). Dadan and his associates forced the PPK to manipulate the drafting of the Terms of Reference (KAK) so that the specifications and volume of procured goods were deliberately not based on the actual needs of the children’s nutrition programme in the field.
Beyond the dealer-less electric motorcycles from PT YAT, Jampidsus investigators also detailed three other luxury supporting goods procurement projects whose budgets were inflated in violation of standard regulations, namely the procurement of 31,994 tablet computers, 5,400 75-inch widescreen televisions, and 32,000 pairs of work shoes. ‘The procurement of shoes, tablets, and televisions did not comply with regulations and involved mark-ups,’ Jeffry stressed.
Another modus operandi was the unilateral appointment of certain foundations as Nutrition Service Fulfilment Unit (SPPG) Partners. The AGO found that ineligible foundations were deliberately passed digitally on the BGN partnership portal due to special attention or direct intervention from the suspects. These foundations reportedly had borrowed names and were owned by the corrupt BGN bureaucrats themselves. ‘The appointed foundations are instruments of crime and are affiliated with BGN officials or employees. These foundations receive incentives amounting to billions of rupiah daily and trillions annually,’ Jeffry revealed.
For their actions, Dadan Hindayana, Sony Sonjaya, and Lodewyk Pusung have been charged under the relevant articles of the Corruption Eradication Law. All three are currently being detained at the Salemba Detention Centre.