KPK Detains Three Suspects in Alleged Pertamina SPBU Digitalisation Corruption

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detained three suspects in a case of alleged corruption related to the digitalisation of state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina’s petrol stations (SPBU) from 2018 to 2023. KPK Acting Director of Investigation Achmad Taufik Husein identified the suspects as DR, WER, and EL. “The suspects have been detained for an initial 20-day period, from 4 to 23 August 2026,” Taufik said at the KPK’s Red and White Building in Jakarta on Tuesday. He stated that DR, who served as Director of Enterprise and Business Service at a state-owned telecommunications company from 2017 to 2019, is being held at the KPK’s Anti-Corruption Education Centre detention facility. Meanwhile, WER, who was Senior General Manager of Strategic Sourcing Operation (SGM SSO) Procurement at the same state-owned telecommunications company from 2012 to 2020, and EL, a former employee of the company and owner of PT PCS, are being detained at the KPK’s Red and White Building detention centre. The suspects are charged under Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001, in conjunction with Article 55 paragraph (1) of the old Criminal Code. The KPK began its investigation into the alleged corruption in Pertamina’s SPBU digitalisation project for the 2018-2023 period in September 2024. A number of witnesses have been summoned since 20 January 2025 to deepen the investigation. The anti-graft body had previously named three suspects, though their identities were not fully disclosed at the time. On 28 August 2025, the KPK stated that the investigation was entering its final stages and that it was calculating state financial losses together with the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). On 6 October 2025, the KPK revealed that one of the suspects in the SPBU digitalisation case, Elvizar (ER), was also a suspect in a separate corruption case involving the procurement of electronic data capture machines at a state-owned bank for the 2020-2024 period. Elvizar served as Director of PT Pasifik Cipta Solusi (PCS) during the SPBU digitalisation project and as President Director of the same company in the EDC procurement case.