Owner of Blueray Cargo Charged with Rp63.15 Billion Bribery of Customs Officials
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The owner of Blueray Cargo, John Field, has been charged with providing bribes and gratifications totalling Rp63.15 billion to several officials in the Directorate General of Customs and Excise under the Ministry of Finance, in an alleged corruption case within the customs authority from 2025 to 2026.
Prosecutor Surya Dharma Tanjung from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) explained that the bribes and gratifications were given jointly with Dedy Kurniawan, the Operational Manager for Customs Clearance at Blueray Cargo Port, and Andri, the Head of the Import Documentation Team at Blueray Cargo.
“The bribes were given with the aim of having the Customs and Excise Service facilitate the faster release of Blueray Cargo Group’s imported goods from the supervision process in the Customs section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise,” the prosecutor stated during the reading of the indictment at the Corruption Court in the Central Jakarta District Court on Wednesday.
The prosecutor detailed that the bribes and gratifications included bribes in Singapore dollars amounting to Rp61.3 billion, along with gratifications in the form of entertainment facilities and luxury goods worth Rp1.85 billion.
The customs officials allegedly receiving the bribes or gratifications are Rizal, Orlando Hamonangan, Fillar Marindra, Sisprian Subiaksono, and Enov Puji.
The prosecutor stated that the Singapore dollar bribes were given seven times to these five customs officials, while the gratifications consisted of entertainment facilities worth Rp1.45 billion, a Tag Heuer watch worth Rp65 million to Orlando, and a Mazda CX-5 vehicle worth Rp330 million to Enov.
For their actions, the defendants face penalties under Article 605 paragraph (1) letter a or Article 606 paragraph (1) in conjunction with Article 20 letter c jo. Article 126 paragraph (1) of the National Criminal Code in conjunction with Article VII numbers 48-49 of Law Number 1 of 2026 on Penal Adjustment.
Subsequently, there was a meeting between Dedy and Andri with Orlando and Fillar, respectively as implementers in the Subdirectorate of Intelligence of the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise of the Ministry of Finance, in August 2025.
In that meeting, John conveyed to Orlando regarding the increasing condition of Blueray Cargo’s imported goods shipments entering the “red lane” and being subject to dwelling time, or the waiting period for containers at the port.
In response, Orlando said that John should subsequently coordinate with Fillar. To accommodate John’s request, Orlando instructed Fillar to prepare a rule set for targeting or targeting rules set by regulations, with parameters based on the Directorate General of Customs and Excise database.
“The targets were made by adjusting the red lane percentage for high-risk importers, one of which is Blueray Cargo,” the prosecutor revealed.
Fillar then sent the Goods Import Notification (PIB) document to Dedy, which contained the Directorate General of Customs and Excise database documents, which are confidential data, mentioning the names of importers entering the “red lane” or “green lane” based on the targeting rule set from the office note of the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.
Dedy then processed and modified the document as a reference for initial information in selecting low-risk sea ports, which was subsequently used as the basis for Blueray Cargo in determining the choice of access for shipments through the “green lane”.
Thus, Blueray Cargo’s imported goods could be released more quickly from the supervision process in the customs section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise.
Regarding the release process of Blueray Cargo’s goods, it was mentioned that they were always facilitated by Rizal, Sisprian as Head of the Subdirectorate of Intelligence of the Directorate of Enforcement and Investigation of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, and Orlando, without conducting detailed supervision and examination processes.
“With the intention of facilitating the faster release of Blueray Cargo’s imported goods from the supervision process in the customs section of the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, the three defendants have given amounts of money to officials in the Directorate General of Customs and Excise,” the prosecutor added.