The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has named PT Darmex Group boss Surya Darmadi as a suspect in the case of misuse of location permits and plantation business permits in an area in Indragiri Hulu on an area of ​​37,095 hectares. Surya and Thamsir's actions are suspected of causing not only losses to the state, but also the country's economy. The amount was not kidding, reaching Rp. 104.1 trillion, up by Rp. 26.1 trillion from the previous loss. The amount of this loss is quite large, even the largest when compared to other cases. In the Asabri corruption case, for example, the loss was only in the range of Rp. 22 trillion. Likewise with the Jiwasraya corruption case, which is in the range of Rp. 16 trillion.

"The state's losses reached Rp. 4.9 trillion and the state's economy to Rp. 99.2 trillion," said Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah, Tuesday (30/8/2022).

So why is the loss so big?
Kapuspenkum AGO Ketut Sumedana explained the state's economic loss in this case.

Ketut said that PT Duta Palma, a subsidiary of Darmex Group, has never fulfilled its legal obligation to provide a Partnership Pattern of 20 percent of the total area of ​​plantations managed as mandated in Article 11 of the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture Number 26 of 2007.

The actions of the Darmex Group resulted in the loss of the state economy in the form of the loss of the rights of the people of Indragiri Hulu Regency who previously had benefited from forest products to improve their economy and the destruction of forest ecosystems.

Meanwhile, state economic losses are regulated in Article 2 and Article 3 of the Corruption Law.

The AGO also mentioned that proving the offense against the state's economy must be linked to the policies of the central and local governments related to economic recovery or improvement. This element can be proven without proving the element of state financial loss first.

Meanwhile, this case is a corruption case with the largest state economic loss in the history of Indonesian law.