DJKA Case: KPK to Examine Advisor to Transport Minister from Budi Karya and Dudy Eras

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have scheduled an examination of Robby Kurniawan, Advisor to the Minister of Transport during the eras of Budi Karya Sumadi and Dudy Purwagandhi, for this Tuesday. KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo explained that the scheduling resulted from coordination between the anti-corruption agency’s investigators and Robby Kurniawan after he was summoned for examination as a witness on 4 May 2026. “The individual did not attend, but coordination has already taken place with the investigators, and it is planned to be rescheduled for Tuesday morning. So, we await the witness’s attendance on Tuesday, 5 May 2026,” Budi stated to journalists in Jakarta on Tuesday. According to him, the KPK is awaiting Robby Kurniawan’s presence as a witness in the alleged bribery case concerning the construction and maintenance of railway lines within the Directorate General of Railways of the Ministry of Transport (DJKA Kemenhub). Previously, the case came to light following a hand-catching operation (OTT) conducted by the KPK on 11 April 2023 at the Class I Railway Technical Office (BTP) for Central Java Region of DJKA Kemenhub. Currently, the BTP Class I Central Java Region has been renamed to BTP Class I Semarang. The KPK then designated 10 suspects who were immediately detained in connection with the alleged corruption case involving railway track construction and maintenance projects in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. The alleged criminal corruption case pertains to the double-track railway construction project from Solo Balapan-Kadipiro-Kalioso, the railway track construction project in Makassar, South Sulawesi, four railway track construction projects and two supervision projects in Lampegan Cianjur, West Java, and the level crossing repair project in Java-Sumatra. In the construction and maintenance of these projects, it is alleged that certain parties arranged the winning contractors through manipulation from the administrative process to the determination of the tender winner.