Amidst the intense demands of business partners to State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) to restructure their debts, now it is the turn of PT Wijaya Karya Realty (WIKA Realty), a subsidiary of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk (WIKA). At the end of July 2024, four of the company’s business partners filed a PKPU lawsuit in two separate lawsuits. The trial has taken place and will continue this week.

In addition to WIKA Realty, another BUMN subsidiary that has to face a PKPU lawsuit is PT Rajawali Nusindo (Rajawali Nusindo), a subsidiary of the food holding company PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (Persero) (PT RNI) or ID Food. The lawsuit was filed in June 2024 and as of this week Rajawali Nusindo is officially in a temporary PKPU period.

The investigation into the case of alleged corruption related to the tin trading system carried out in the Mining Business License (IUP) area owned by PT Timah Tbk (TINS) is still ongoing, but as of today, the trial of the predicate crime is halfway through. Prosecutors have expedited the dockets of the most anticipated suspects to the next phase, while three suspects who are former government officials have read their objections to prosecutors’ indictment. On the other hand, the case of alleged obstruction of justice will end soon as the prosecutors had read their demands.

Towards the end of 2021, the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim POLRI) announced that they were investigating allegations of corruption at PT Jakarta Infrastruktur Propertindo (PT JIP), a subsidiary of PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro)—a company owned by city administration of Jakarta. The POLRI also announced that it had named two suspects in the case and later developed the investigation and named the two suspects as suspects in the case of alleged money laundering. It took more than a year since then for the two suspects to be found guilty in 2023. The POLRI did not stop investigating and announced two new suspects in the predicate crime soon after. Far from media coverage, the suspects had been found guilty this week.

The problematic PT Asuransi Jiwa Kresna (known as Kresna Life linked to PT Kresna Graha Investama Tbk – KREN) managed to avoid bankruptcy in February 2021 only to have the decision annulled by the Supreme Court. The firm is declared bankrupt. Two years after the chaotic dispute was made known to the public, the police announced that they had named the President Director of Kresna Life as suspect in an ongoing investigation into a criminal case. Months later, the investigation developed into another case of alleged money laundering involving affiliated companies. All this happened while the firm’s license had been revoked by the Financial Service Authority (OJK). Earlier this year, however, the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN Jakarta) decided to annul OJK’s decision. But the OJK decided to appeal. As if there weren’t enough problems, this month, the President Director filed a pre-trial lawsuit to the Central Jakarta District Court, again.

The court proceeding on the case of alleged corruption related to the construction of the Jakarta-Cikampek II Elevated Toll Road, better known as the MBZ toll road, had ended. Despite the important case profile, the court proceedings continued far from media coverage and within only four months the defendants had been found guilty. There were questions left over from the whole process and we thought it would be a long wait like most cases, but the AGO proved us wrong. This week the institution named a new suspect.

Three remaining defendants in two different cases related to the BAKTI scandal, the alleged corruption related to a project at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, have been found guilty recently. The case initially gained attention as all eyes were on former Minister Johnny Plate (NasDem) who was accused of being the mastermind of the scheme and then found guilty. The case then managed to ensnare familiar names, even a member of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK). Names of high profile public figures were also mentioned along the lengthy court proceedings, but many were only examined as witnesses. Now with the reading of the final set of verdicts, will this case end just like that?

Back in 2018, a plan was initiated to establish Bandung as a smart city. When Yana Mulyana (Gerindra) was appointed Mayor of Bandung in 2022, the program, Bandung Smart City, was still maximizing its CCTV services and internet services (internet service providers/ISPs). But the plan was tarnished with a case of alleged corruption. In 2023, Yana was found guilty. The investigation however did not stop there. In March 2024, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) announced the development of the case and named five new suspects including four DPRD members. To everyone’s surprise, at the beginning of this week, three of the new suspects were re-inaugurated as DPRD members for the 2024 to 2029 term.

The Satgas BLBI, now under new leadership, unsurprisingly is facing a new problem. This time a lawsuit was registered to the Central Jakarta District Court against the decision of the Satgas for the confiscation that was carried out nearly a year ago. The plaintiff is Dwijanto Gondokusumo and we all know this is not the first lawsuit Dwijanto filed.