Witness in Noel Ebenezer Trial Admits Depositing Rp 4.4 Billion After Extortion by Officials

JAKARTA – Deka Perdanawan, Operational Director of PT Delta Indonesia, one of the occupational safety and health service companies (PJK3) contracted by the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker), testified that his company deposited more than Rp 4.4 billion to Kemnaker officials named as defendants in the trial.

Deka testified as a witness in the trial for alleged corruption charges related to extortion in processing K3 certificates, with the defendant being former Deputy Minister of Manpower (Wamenaker) Immanuel Ebenezer, known as Noel, and other defendants.

“From the data at PT Delta or as you recall, what is the total amount you have given to Kemnaker employees that you mentioned earlier?” asked one of the prosecutors in the hearing at Jakarta’s Corruption Court on Monday, 2 March 2026.

During the trial, Deka mentioned several costs that needed to be paid, both in cash and transferred to accounts provided by the defendants.

For example, the Appointment Decision Letter (SKP) required renewal every two years. Deka explained that when creating and renewing the SKP, he needed to pay Rp 5 million per certificate.

For paying training facilitator fees, Deka spent Rp 250,000-500,000 per facilitator.

Starting from the Institutional Coordinator and K3 Personnel of Kemnaker for 2022-2025, Irvian Bobby Mahendro, Coordinator of Safety Testing and Competency Evaluation of Kemnaker for 2022 to present, Gerry Aditya Herwanto Putra, Sub-coordinator of Occupational Safety at the Directorate of K3 Development of Kemnaker for 2020-2025 Subhan, and many others.

When asked about the exact amount given to the defendants, Deka said he did not remember and claimed to have provided all data to investigators.

The prosecutor then read out calculations that had been confirmed during the investigation stage.

“According to your statement number 19, this is what you may recall. From this Bank Mandiri account the total is Rp 3,278,350,000. From BCA account Rp 1,197,250,000, yes?” asked the prosecutor.

Deka confirmed his statement.

When combined, the total deposits from PT Delta to the defendants reached Rp 4,475,600,000.

During the trial, Deka repeatedly mentioned that he had to deposit the money because he was worried that the certificates submitted by his company would not be issued by Kemnaker.