InfoSAWIT, PALU – PT Rimbunan Alam Semesta (RAS), the subsidiary of PT Astra Agro Lestari has been going viral for annexation assumption of Enterprises’ palm oil plantations in the Regency of Morowali Utara (Morut), Central Sulawesi Province. The assumption raised after the team of Central Sulawesi Procecutor investigated the company and assumed that the country got losses up to Rp 79 billion just from one case component.
Head of Legal Information Unit, Central Sulawesi Prosecutor, Laode Sofyan said that the case involved the land mastery of business rights that belonged to PT Perkebunan Nusantara XIV (PTPN XIV) by PT RAS since 2009 without having permit(s). "The temporary calculation, the loss could be reaching Rp 79 billion and the numbers were from only one component,” he said to some media, as InfoSAWIT quoted from deadline-news.com, Friday (6/9/2024).
The case could be similar to the case in PT Duta Palma Nusantara, that belonged to Surya Darmadi and the boss should be put in jail. The company also involved in palm oil plantation mastery without having permits for years that might deliver losses for the country up to Rp 78 trillion.
For the plantation annexation, Central Sulawesi Prosecutor investigated the office of PT RAS in the Village of Era, Morut, on Tuesday (20/8/2024). It was from the Investigation Warrant and Search Warrant that was published and signed by Central Sulawesi Prosecutor based on Investigation Warrant Number: PRINT-05/P.2/Fd.1/08/2024 and Search Warrant Number: PRINT-58/P.2.5/Fd.1/08/2024, and Determination of Search Permit Number: 90/PenPid.B-GLD/2024/PN Pso.
In the execution that took place at 11.00 to 16.30 WITA, the investigator team successfully sealed two containers full of operational documents of PT RAS and 13 vehicles, such as, dump truck, excavator, and other operational vehicles.
The search ran smoothly with the supervision from the local army and witnessed by the workers of PT RAS. The investigators also sealed evidences based on the Seal Warrant.
The prosecutors should deal with the case to know more about corruption assumption and mis-authority by PT RAS. (T2)
