KPK is Requested to Find Out the Suspected Bad Credit in BPD Kaltim

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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) of Transparansi Otonomi Daerah (Region Autonomy Transparency) through its spokesman, Ahmad Dede Kurnia welcoming the attitude of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) which began to highlight the performance of the Regional Development Banks (BPD). Moreover, the Commission was in the investigation of illegal practices of some of the deposit from BPD to officials at provincial and district levels in some areas.

Dede Kurnia in his statement, Sunday (10 / 1) also stated that a case of illegal deposits in some BPD is seemingly only one of the allegedly unhealthy practices that occur in BPD environment.

"Its existence, which is far from the supervision of the central institutions’ law enforcement, seems to open greater opportunities for the occurrence of these unhealthy practices. These unhealthy practices lead to corruption activities that potentially cause significant financial losses to the country, "he said.

Dede believes the allegations of unhealthy banking practices is the bad credit channeling by BPD Kaltim on one of the local companies PT AUS in East Kalimantan.

Legally, he explained, the party applying for a loan was indeed a community cooperative as plasma farmer. However, the corporate guarantor was that company.

"The fact was that PT AUS also manages and uses the credit funds. Thus, it can be said that the substantial creditor is PT AUS. The credit was worth about Rp. 219.000.000.000 which is realized in July 2009 for the purposes of development and management of community’s oil palm plasma plantations in the area of 1200 hectares," Dede said.

The allegation is that, Dede confirmed, the credit funds were not used for the development and management of oil palm plantations plasma belongs to the people. This conclusion comes after seeing a very slow process of plantation development.

"Almost all plantation development schedule starting from land clearing, construction of roads, construction of drainage until seeding time deviated from the limit that have previously set," he explained.

"If in the end the people's plantation development fails then most likely the loans of PT AUS it will be bad and that means financial losses have led to the state," said Dede again.