KPK examines Ministry of Transportation civil servant with initials MAHH to probe Sudewo's role

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) examined a civil servant from the Ministry of Transportation with initials MAHH to delve deeper into the role of Sudewo.

Sudewo is a member of House of Representatives Commission V for the 2019-2024 period, whom the KPK has designated as one of the suspects in the alleged bribery case concerning the construction and maintenance of railway lines within the Directorate General of Railways (DJKA) of the Ministry of Transportation.

“The witness was questioned regarding the arrangement, conditioning, and plotting (allocation, ed.) of prospective providers (vendors, ed.) within the Railway Maintenance Agency, particularly those carried out by the suspect SDW,” stated KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo to journalists in Jakarta on Thursday.

Budi said that MAHH, who was examined by the KPK on Thursday, is a former Head of the Railway Maintenance Agency at the Ministry of Transportation.

Meanwhile, based on gathered information, the witness MAHH also once served as Acting Director of Railway Facilities at the Ministry of Transportation.

Previously, the case came to light following a handcatch operation (OTT) conducted by the KPK on 11 April 2023 at the Class I Railway Technical Office for Central Java Region of the DJKA Ministry of Transportation.

At present, the Class I Railway Technical Office for Central Java Region has been renamed to Class I Semarang Railway Technical Office.

The KPK then designated 10 individuals as suspects, who were immediately detained, in connection with the alleged corruption case involving railway track construction and maintenance projects in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

As of 20 January 2026, the KPK has designated and detained a total of 21 suspects. The KPK has also named two corporations as suspects in the case.

The alleged criminal corruption case pertains to the double-track railway construction project from Solo Balapan-Kadipiro-Kalioso; the railway line 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 project implementers’ winners through manipulation from the administrative process to the determination of the tender winner.