The bribery scheme to manipulate audit findings at the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) implicates one of its members. It is a troubling precedent for oversight.
THE Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) still has work to do after uncovering bribery related to the issuing of audit reports by the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in Enim Regency, South Sumatra. Investigators detained Muara Enim Regent Edison and a number of people in a sting operation. The public is now waiting for the KPK to uncover the possible involvement of Bobby Adhityo Rizaldi, a BPK member from the Golkar Party.
The involvement of Bobby in the manipulation of BPK audits in Muara Enim is plain for all to see. The anti-graft commission named Augusz Dewanggara, also known as Angga, a suspect for taking bribes relating to the issuing of a fabricated BPK audit. Angga was on Bobby’s expert staff when the latter was a legislator at the House of Representatives (DPR).
According to the KPK, Angga acted as a middleman because he had direct communication access to BPK members. He is alleged to have asked the Muara Enim Regent for payment in order to give the regional financial report produced by the Regent an unqualified audit opinion (WTP).
The KPK has in the past allowed BPK members caught up in corruption case to go free despite having convincing evidence. In 2023, Pius Lustrilanang, a BPK member from the Gerindra party, was alleged to have taken a bribe in relation to the manipulation of financial audit results in Sorong Regency, Southwest Papua. There were indications that the 1998 Reformasi activist had asked the regional government for a bribe between Rp500 million and Rp2 billion. He had allegedly collected this bribe via the head of the BPK regional office there.
Pius is still officially only a witness. He also happens to be an independent commissioner for state mining company Aneka Tambang (Antam). If the Pius case is anything to go by, we doubt that the KPK will have the courage to even touch Bobby, meaning that this case will go no further than the involvement of Bobby’s former expert staffer Angga and Muara Enim Regent Edison. Yet it would not have been possible for Angga to have influenced the regional financial audit opinion without networking and direction from officials of the state audit body, because he is not an auditor, let alone a member of the BPK.
Bobby’s involvement in the Muara Enim audit corruption will come to light if the KPK has the will and the courage to reveal it. Recently, the KPK uncovered the chain of command and detained senior officials by examining evidence and the confessions resulting from a sting operation carried out against their subordinates.
They KPK detained Deputy Immigration and Corrections Minister Silmy Karim in relation to extortion relating to the processing of permits for foreigners. Silmy’s role was revealed after investigators detained Ronald Arman Abdullah, the West Jakarta Immigration Office Chief, in a sting operation. If the KPK is able to determine Silmy’s role, it should be able to uncover the involvement of Bobby in the BPK audit bribery.
The KPK must be even-handed in dealing with this case, especially regarding public officials from political parties. Bobby, like Pius, does not have legal immunity simply because of his political background as a party member.
The suspected involvement of Bobby is further proof of the problems that arise from party figures becoming members of the BPK. As well as Bobby and Pius, Achsanul Qosasi of the Democratic Party became a suspect in the corruption involving the base transceiver towers project, and Rizal Djalil of the National Mandate Party was embroiled in alleged bribery relating to the drinking water development project.
These politicians are not independent, and are prone to corruption. Although there is no 100 percent guarantee, the BPK could have members with integrity if the selection process was rigorous, included public participation and banned politicians from becoming state auditors.
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