The Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court finally held the last hearing of Marudut Pakpahan’s trial. Marudut was caught for his involvement in the attempted bribery of Jakarta High Court officials. On September 2, 2016 Marudut was declared guilty of all charges.

On September 4, 2016 the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) conducted a Sting Operation (OTT) in South Sumatera. The target was the Regent of Banyuasin Yan Anton Ferdian of Golkar. At the same time, the KPK arrested five other people. After undergoing examination in South Sumatera and Jakarta, the KPK named the six men arrested as suspects. That was the KPK’s eleventh OTT conducted in 2016. Yan Anton is the fourth Regent named as a suspect by the KPK in this year so far.

On April 7, 2016 the Ministry of Marine and Fisheries (KKP) issued the Ministerial Regulation (Permen) No. 15/PERMEN-KP/2016 on Vessels for Transporting Live Fish. This new Permen amended many of regulations contained in Permen No. 49/PERMEN-KP/2014. But only a few months later, on August 22, 2016 the President issued Presidential Instruction (Inpres) No. 7/2016 on the Acceleration of the National Fisheries Industry. This Inpres requires the Minister of Marine and Fisheries to find and evaluate regulations that may hamper the development of the fishing industry as well as several other important matters related to the fisheries industry. On this basis, the KKP decided to revise Permen No. 15/PERMEN-KP/2016.

After three months of trial at the Corruption Court of the Central Jakarta District Court, on September 1, 2016 the former President Director of PT Agung Podomoro Land Tbk (APLN) Ariesman Widjaja and his aide Trinanda Prihantoro were declared guilty of all charges. Their sentence, however, are believed to be too light given the scale of the corruption scheme both are involved in.

After the lawsuit filed against PT National Sago Prima (NSP), a subsidiary of PT Sampoerna Argo Tbk was partially granted by the Panel of Judges of the South Jakarta District Court, on August 11, 2016, the Palembang High Court also partially granted the appeal filed against PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), a subsidiary of Sinarmas Group. The Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar confirmed the news on August 28, 2016. The Minister also said that the Government would file for a cassation.

After the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) launched an investigation in case of alleged corruption in Pertamina Foundation last year, today it’s the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) turn to investigate allegations of corruption in PT Pertamina Patra Niaga (Patra Niaga). It has been a very colorful couple of years for Pertamina’s subsidiaries, has it not?

The former member of the House Commission V of the House of Representatives Damayanti Wisnu Putranti of PDI-P, who is allegedly involved in the case of alleged bribery related to the Trans-Seram road project in the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (Kemen-PUPR), has heard the Prosecutor’s demands on hear crime. The hearing was held on August 29, 2016. But the case still leaves so many important clues unsolved and important people unexamined.

The trial of disputes related to business competition on powdered beverage, which has been handled by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU), is finally over. The KPPU declared PT Forisa Nusapersada, the owner of the brand “Pop Ice” as guilty of conducting unfair business competition and must pay fine in the amount of Rp11.46 billion.

Not long after successfully revealing the bribery in the making of fake visa-on-arrival for the ship crew of PT Fujian Anda Oceanic Fisheries (the business partner of Tomy Winata’s PT Maritim Timur Jaya (MTJ)), the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim), which was at the time led by the Commissioner-General (Pol) Budi Waseso (Buwas), investigated the office of MTJ and Fujian Anda in Tual, Southeast Maluku. Rumor spread that the 27 Bareskrim investigators handling the operation had acted arbitrarily. Later in September 2015, the Directorate of Specific Economic Crime applied for a search warrant to raid MTJ’s representative office in Artha Graha Building. The raid was canceled because Tomy Winata had reportedly reacted strongly against it. In his statement to Tempo, Tomy denied that he ever did so. MTJ’s legal counsel Desrizal, however, hinted at something else. What actually happened?