Day: October 15, 2024

Recently, news about the dispute between the former President Commissioner of PT Berkah Beton Sadaya Tbk (BEBS), Asep Sulaeman Sabanda, along with over 30 other parties, with PT Mirae Asset Sekuritas Indonesia surfaced to the public. There was no other information conveyed to the public other than that the value of the dispute reached more than Rp8 trillion. Later, Mirae Asset spoke out and stated that the lawsuit was baseless and it turned out that, a few weeks before the lawsuit was filed, Mirae Asset had already sued Asep with more than 40 other parties as co-defendants on allegation of default with a dispute value of more than Rp7 trillion. What a mess.

The dispute over ownership of land covering an area of more than six hectares in Dago Elos, Bandung, West Java, became public on Aug. 14, 2023, after a chaotic event resulted from clashes between residents and the police became viral on social media. By then, what we know is that after more than six years of dispute in court, in 2022 the Supreme Court declared that the land in question was legally owned by the heirs of the Muller family. However, the residents who occupied the land did not accept the decision and the events after that finally resulted in a more confusing situation. However, when the case finally gained national attention, we learned something odd. The documents that were used as the basis for legal considerations at the Supreme Court are documents that, if examined according to historical records, should not have existed. Here we are over a year after the chaotic incident with news that the Muller brothers had been found guilty of fraud. Oh how the tables have turned.