Febrie Adriansyah Allegedly Received Rp40 Billion from Tan Kian in Asabri Case
Former Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah is alleged to have received Rp40 billion from businessman Tan Kian. The allegation surfaced during a pretrial ruling at the South Jakarta District Court concerning the Asabri and Jiwasraya corruption cases.
Sole judge Richard Edwin Basoeki revealed that testimony regarding the handover of the money formed part of the evidence held by investigators. The money was given in Singapore dollars with an equivalent value of Rp40 billion.
“Considering that one of the statements referred to as part of the evidence is Tan Kian’s testimony regarding the handover of money in Singapore dollars with an equivalent value of Rp40 billion to the petitioner, which according to the testimony was related to the legal issues of Jiwasraya and/or Asabri,” Richard said while reading the ruling on Thursday (27/8/2026).
The judge stated that the police had obtained statements from a number of witnesses regarding Febrie’s communications with parties related to the Jiwasraya and Asabri cases before conducting the search. In addition to witness testimony, investigators also possessed documents and transaction data deemed mutually corroborating.
Based on this evidence, the judge found sufficient preliminary evidence, namely at least two pieces of evidence as stipulated in Article 235 paragraph 1 of Law Number 20 of 2025.
However, Richard emphasised that the pretrial hearing only examines the legality of formal actions such as searches, seizures and the naming of suspects, not to prove the material truth of the alleged payment.
“The mention of this evidence does not mean the judge declares the witness testimony about the handover of money to be true or that the petitioner is proven to have committed a criminal offence. The assessment at the pretrial stage is only to determine whether there was an objective basis before the action was taken,” he stressed.
In his ruling, the judge rejected all pretrial motions filed by Febrie under case registration number 134 Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL. The judge considered that the absence of the Attorney General’s permission for the search did not render the action invalid, given the exception in Constitutional Court Decision Number 15/PUU-XXIII/2025 for cases of serious crime or caught in the act.
For information, in this case Febrie acted as the petitioner, while the respondents were Polda Metro Jaya and the Police Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortas Tipikor), with the Attorney General’s Office as a co-respondent.
In addition to this case, Febrie also filed a second pretrial motion under case number 135/Pid.Pra/2026/PB JKT.SEL regarding the legality of his naming as a suspect by the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes. The ruling hearing for the second case is scheduled for Friday (28/8).