Tin Corruption Case: State Losses Rise to Rp300tn

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Attorney General's Office has provided an update on the tin trading scandal in which a former Energy Ministry official has been named as a suspect. Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin said that the final result of the calculation of state losses due to corruption in the tin trading system in the area of PT Timah Tbk's Mining Business License (IUP) was Rp300 trillion, higher than the previous estimate of Rp271 trillion.

In a press conference at the AGO building on Wednesday, May 29, Burhanuddin said that this figure was based on the audit results of the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).

The increase in the amount of losses was based on three calculations made by the BPK, namely the high price of smelter rent, the sale of tin ore to partners, and state finances and environmental damage. The smelter rent is estimated at Rp2.2 trillion, tin ore sales to partners reach Rp26 trillion, and losses to the state and environment reach Rp271 trillion.

BPKP chairman Muhammad Yusuf Ateh symbolically handed over the results of his agency's audit to Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin and the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes, Febrie Adriansyah.

Febrie Adriansyah said that the Attorney General's Office would immediately complete the case file so that it could be handed over to the prosecutor. He said the prosecutor would claim state losses for the loss of Rp300 trillion.

"The prosecutor will go to court with his accusation of not considering the country's economy," he said.

On the same occasion, the AGO announced that it had named Bambang Gatot Ariyono, the former Director General of Minerals and Coal at the Energy Ministry between 2015 and 2020, as a suspect in the case. 

Adil Al Hasan

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