KPK also confirms seized items during questioning of Rita Widyasari

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it also confirmed details of seized items when questioning former Kutai Kartanegara regent Rita Widyasari on 7 October 2026.

“Witness RW (Rita) attended and was asked about evidence seized by investigators,” KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo told journalists in Jakarta on Thursday.

Budi’s statement supplemented an earlier account that the KPK had questioned Rita to examine the role of Khairudin, a suspect in an alleged money-laundering case within the Kutai Kartanegara regency administration.

Budi also said the KPK questioned a private-sector individual identified by the initials BOH as a witness on the same date. “Investigators asked witness BOH about assets registered in their name,” he said.

The case is an expansion of an investigation that began when the KPK named Kutai Kartanegara regent Rita Widyasari, PT Sawit Golden Prima president director Hery Susanto Gun, and PT Media Bangun Bersama commissioner Khairudin as suspects in an alleged gratification case on 28 September 2017.

Rita is suspected of receiving gratification in connection with the granting of a plantation location permit to PT Sawit Golden Prima in Kupang Baru village, Muara Kaman district, Kutai Kartanegara regency.

The KPK later expanded the case and, on 16 January 2018, named Rita and Khairudin as suspects in an alleged money-laundering offence.

On 19 February 2025, the KPK disclosed allegations that Rita had received money from the coal-mining sector, amounting to as much as about US$5 per metric tonne of coal.

A year later, on 19 February 2026, the KPK named three companies as suspects in an alleged gratification case related to coal production in Kutai Kartanegara.

The companies are PT Sinar Kumala Naga, PT Alamjaya Barapratama and PT Bara Kumala Sakti.