FAJAR.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The Jakarta Bandung Fast Train (KCJB) or Whoosh project is suspected by a number of parties to be full of corrupt practices. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) even investigated the case.

In fact, for the land acquisition process for the whoosh project, the Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) dared to confirm that there were criminal acts of corruption in the land acquisition process for the high-speed train.

One method is to sell state-owned land for the project. There are allegations that large funds were paid to certain parties during the land acquisition.

“There are individuals who should have owned the state, but sold it back to the state,” said Asep Guntur Rahayu, Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the Corruption Eradication Commission, at the KPK Red and White Building, Jakarta, Monday (11/10).

Asep explained that it was suspected that state-owned land was not being sold at market prices.
“Even more. In fact, the land belongs to the state because it is used for government projects, so the state should not have to pay to use this land,” he stressed.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is currently investigating the irregular land acquisition for Whoosh. “If the payment is reasonable, we will not take a case. However, for those whose payments are not reasonable, the surcharges, etc., plus, it is not their land, it is the state’s land, in many ways, because it is a national project, so it is regulated here and there, so that they get a certain amount of money, not another amount, it is a lot of money, so we have to return the money to the state,” a explained Asep.

Fajar.co.id, jakarta – Giving amnesty or forgiveness to the Secretary General of the Indonesian Democratic Party of the struggle, Hasto Kristiento received a response from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The KPK said it would first study the orders of the DPR and the Head of State.

“We first learn the information. Although the legal process is also being executed, the process of submission of a call,” KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo said on Thursday (07/31/2025).

Budi said that KPK’s decision was currently attractive to the sentence of 3.5 years in prison in the case of corruption of members of the Inter-time change process (PAW) of the House of Representatives who took the absence of Hasto Kristiyanto. However, the decision could change if Hasto’s amnesty had been studied.

For more information, the Indonesian Parliament has just taken a consultation meeting with the government linked to the examination of the letter from the President of the Republic of Indonesia concerning the granting of abolition to amnesty. The DPR gave approval of the letter submitted by the government.

The president of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Setyo Budiyanto, stressed that the Head of State had not crossed his limits in politics. “It is the authority of the president in accordance with the 1945 Constitution,” said Setyo thanks to a written declaration on Thursday, July 31, 2025.

Setyo said the president has the right to forgive anyone. Including Hasto, which was taken in a case of corruption in the intermittent change process (PAW) of DPR members.

Previously, the Corruption Court of the District Court of Jakarta Central said that Hasto Kristiyanto was guilty and had proven that he had welded the paw process of DPR members for Masaraku Masku. The panel of judges sentenced to a prison sentence to Hasto Kristiyanto for 3.5 years.