KPK Says e-Catalogue Procurement Needs Evaluation
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says procurement of goods and services through the online shopping application developed by the Government Goods/Services Procurement Policy Agency (LKPP), namely the e-Catalogue, needs to be evaluated.
KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo explained that the evaluation is necessary because procurement through the e-Catalogue is believed to still create loopholes for criminal acts, such as in the alleged corruption case involving the suspended Tulungagung Regent Gatut Sunu Wibowo.
‘With the e-Catalogue as it currently operates, particularly in Tulungagung, the parties can still collude, both from the private sector and from state officials as users of the procurement,’ he told reporters in Jakarta on Friday.
He explained that in that case, there were alleged communications between public officials and private parties to influence the selection of the winner of the procurement.
‘In this matter, there were communications outside the system to click on certain companies that would then carry out projects within the Tulungagung Regency government,’ he said.
Therefore, he said, stakeholders need to fix the existing loopholes by conducting an evaluation first, such as in terms of regulations and the governance of the system.
‘This is surely a spur to evaluate the governance of procurement of goods and services in Indonesia, given the ongoing scale of corruption in the procurement sector with a variety of modus operandi observed on the ground,’ he said.
Earlier, the KPK carried out an arrest operation (OTT) in Tulungagung, East Java on 10 April 2026.
KPK arrested 18 people in that OTT, including Gatut Sunu Wibowo and his younger brother, who is also a member of Tulungagung’s DPRD, Jatmiko Dwijo Saputro.
The day after, on 11 April 2026, the KPK brought Gatut Sunu Wibowo and his brother, together with 11 other people, to Jakarta for intensive questioning.
On the same date, the KPK announced that Gatut Sunu Wibowo (GSW) along with Dwi Yoga Ambal (YOG) as aides were suspects in an alleged extortion case and other payments within the Tulungagung Regency Government for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
The KPK suspects that Gatut Sunu extorted regional government officials using the modus of a resignation letter from the post and the civil servant status.
That letter had already been signed and stamped, but the date had not been written.
With this modus, the KPK suspects that Gatut Sunu obtained up to Rp2.7 billion from targets amounting to Rp5 billion from 16 heads of work units (SKPD) or regional device organisations (OPD) within the Tulungagung Regency Government.