Supreme Court rejects PK appeal by Tsunami Shelter corruption convict

Mataram, Indonesia — The Supreme Court, in decision number 1251 K/PID.SUS/2026, has rejected the Peninjauan Kembali (PK) filed by Aprialely Nirmala, convicted of corruption in the construction of the Tsunami Shelter in Lombok Utara. “Yes, according to information we received from the Supreme Court, the PK in the name of Aprialely Nirmala has been rejected,” said Kelik Trimargo, the Spokesperson of the Mataram District Court, in Mataram on Thursday. Aprialely Nirmala initiated this extraordinary legal remedy based on the first-instance verdict that sentenced her to six years in prison. The project’s 2014 official in charge of commitments (PPK) from the Satker PBL, the NTB Provincial Office under the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR) of the Republic of Indonesia, was also fined Rp300 million by the judges. In the event of non-payment, the court stipulated a lighter subsistence penalty for the fine, reducing it from six months to four months in lieu of imprisonment. Separately, defendant Agus Herijanto, who served as the project head executor for PT Waskita Karya, received a sentence in line with the prosecution’s demand: 7.5 years in prison with a Rp400 million fine, and a substitutes of six months’ confinement, as well as a money replacement order of Rp1.3 billion subsiding two years. The court, in line with the prosecutorial demand, found both defendants guilty of jointly committing corruption that led to a building valued at Rp20.9 billion not meeting utilisation principles. As a result of the actions of the two defendants, the court concurred with the BPKP RI audit findings that the national loss in this case was Rp18.46 billion, equivalent to the total project loss. Aprialely, as the project’s implementing official, was also found to have enriched Agus Herijanto, the project head, by Rp1.3 billion. This figure arose from budget spending that could not be accounted for in the final project report. Consequently, the court found the acts of Aprialely Nirmala jointly with Agus Herijanto to have violated the prosecution’s alternative first indictment, namely Article 2(1) in conjunction with Article 18 of Indonesian Law No. 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of Corruption, as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001, in conjunction with Article 55(1) of the Indonesian Penal Code (KUHP).