Juliari Collected Rp 15.2 Billion in Illegal Fees, Court Finds

The panel of judges sentenced Juliari to 12 years in prison. The sentence was heavier than the 11 years demanded by the prosecutors.

Kompas/Wawan H Prabowo

Former Minister of Social Affairs Juliari P Batubara underwent an inaugural trial with the agenda of reading the indictment by the Public Prosecutor of the Corruption Eradication Commission (JPU) at the Jakarta Corruption Court (Tipikor) at the Central Jakarta District Court (PN), Wednesday (21/4/2021)

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Former social affairs minister Juliari P. Batubara was found to have ordered his subordinates at the ministry Adi Wahyono and Matheus Joko Santoso to collect a Rp 10,000 fee for each package of food aid supplied by the vendors involved in the provision of the government’s COVID-19 social aid in 2020.

At the time, the Social Affairs Ministry was managing 1.9 million packages of staple food aid worth Rp 6.8 trillion for residents of Greater Jakarta. The budget for each package was set at Rp 300,000 and was to be distributed 12 times.