April 15, 2026 | 04:40 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Samin Tan was stunned on the afternoon of Friday, March 27, 2026. Just as he was about to step out of the office of the Forest Area Enforcement Task Force (Satgas PKH) on Jalan Hang Tuah Raya in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, investigators from the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes were already waiting at the gate. They promptly arrested him.
At first, Samin Tan had arrived with his driver at the task force office intending to settle a fine related to his coal company, Asmin Koalindo Tuhup (AKT). Since last year, Satgas PKH had gathered evidence that AKT allegedly conducted illegal mining in a forest area in Murung Raya Regency, Central Kalimantan.
After calculations, the administrative fine imposed by Satgas PKH on AKT reached Rp4.24 trillion (about US$250 million). Samin Tan had little room to maneuver. He had gone back and forth to the task force office to resolve the penalty, hoping the meetings would lead to a discount or at least some payment relief.
His luck ran out when negotiations hit a dead end. That day, investigators arrested him and took him to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) complex, just 1 kilometer from the task force office. "Up until that day, there had been no summons letter for the coal mining case," said Samin Tan's lawyer, Dodi S. Abdulkadir, on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
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