December 2, 2025 | 09:40 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has sent a summons for questioning to former West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil in connection with alleged corruption involving advertising funds at the West Java and Banten Regional Development Bank (Bank BJB). The anti-corruption agency has scheduled the questioning of Ridwan Kamil for this week.
"So, let's wait together," said the Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK, Asep Guntur Rahayu, at the Merah Putih building, South Jakarta, on Monday, December 1, 2025.
Asep mentioned that the summons for questioning had been sent to Ridwan Kamil last week. Asep stated that the KPK is still waiting for the willingness of the former West Java Governor to comply with the KPK's summons for questioning. "We estimate that the letter has been delivered," he said.
Previously, KPK investigators suspected that Ridwan Kamil received corrupt funds from BJB Bank to purchase a Mercedes-Benz car owned by former President BJ Habibie. "Asked for information about assets, both those seized by the KPK and other knowledge," said KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo on September 7, 2025.
Furthermore, the KPK will seek confirmation from Ridwan Kamil regarding the flow of funds to the Corporate Secretary of BJB Bank. "In the management of these non-budgetary funds, investigators suspect that they flowed to several parties, and all of that is being investigated," he said.
In this BJB Bank corruption case, the KPK has named five suspects. They are suspected of causing financial loss to the West Java and Banten Regional Development Bank amounting to IDR 222 billion.
The five suspects are the former CEO of BJB Bank, Yuddy Renaldi; the head of the Corporate Secretary Division of BJB Bank, Widi Hartoto; the controllers of the Arteja Muliatama and Cakrawala Kreasi agencies, Ikin Asikin Dulmanan; the controller of the Wahana Semesta Bandung Ekspress and BSC Advertising agencies, Suhendrik; and the controller of the Cipta Karya Mandiri Bersama and Cipta Karya Sukses Bersama agencies, Sophan Jaya Kusuma.
The Acting Director of Investigation at the KPK, Budi Sukmo Wibowo, explained that Yuddy Renaldi and Widi Hartoto prepared these agencies to meet non-budgetary fund needs. The appointment of agencies without a tender was also in violation of the BJB internal regulations regarding the procurement of goods and services.
They are also suspected of arranging for agencies to win the placement of advertisements. Shortly before the KPK announced the investigation of this case on March 5, Yuddy resigned from his position as CEO of BJB Bank.
"Here, of course the agencies have agreed together, so they, along with the BJB officials, the CEO and the head of the corsec division, committed acts causing financial harm to the state," said Budi Sukmo on March 13, 2025.
Regarding the state losses of around Rp222 billion, Budi stated that the amount is an accumulation of alleged corruption in the advertising procurement project at Bank BJB during 2021-2023. "What is not real or fictitious is clearly evident at Rp222 billion during that 2.5-year period," said Budi Sukmo.
Budi revealed that the BJB advertising budget during that period was around Rp409 billion before taxes, and after tax deduction, it was around Rp300 billion. From this Rp300 billion, only around Rp100 billion was used as intended.
"About Rp100 billion, which was allocated in accordance with real work done. And even then, we have not yet conducted a detailed tracing of the Rp100 billion," he said.
The five suspects are accused of violating Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 of Law Number 31 Year 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 Year 2001 juncto Article 55 paragraph (1) point 1 of the Indonesian Penal Code. The five suspects have not been detained but have been banned from leaving the country for 6 months.
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