KPK Examines Former Transport Ministry Director in Railway Bribery Case

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has examined Danto Restyawan, a former Director of Road Transport Facilities at the Ministry of Transportation, as a witness in a suspected bribery case involving railway construction and maintenance projects within the ministry’s Directorate General of Railways.

KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo stated that the examination took place at the KPK’s Merah Putih Building in Jakarta. Danto Restyawan was questioned in his capacity as the Director of Railway Traffic and Transportation at the Directorate General of Railways for the 2019-2021 period.

“The witness has arrived. He arrived at the KPK at 09.40 WIB and immediately went up to the examination room,” Budi said.

The case came to light following a KPK sting operation at the Class I Railway Engineering Centre for the Central Java Region on 11 April 2023, an institution now known as the Class I Railway Engineering Centre Semarang.

During the investigation, the KPK initially named 10 individuals as suspects and detained them over alleged corruption in railway construction and maintenance projects in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. By 20 January 2026, the anti-graft body had named and detained 21 suspects, including a member of the House of Representatives’ Commission V for the 2019-2024 period, Sudewo. Additionally, two companies have been named as corporate suspects.

The case encompasses the Solo Balapan-Kadipiro-Kalioso double-track railway project, railway construction in Makassar, four construction projects and two supervision projects in Lampegan, Cianjur, as well as level crossing improvement projects in Java and Sumatra.

The KPK suspects that project winners were predetermined through manipulation of the procurement process, from the administrative stage to the determination of tender winners.