January 31, 2026 | 10:31 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office (AGO) will summon former Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya Bakar to testify as a witness in a corruption investigation linked to the management of palm oil plantations and the industry between 2015 and 2024.
“We will schedule it later,” said Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, Director of Investigations at the Special Crimes Deputy Attorney General’s Office, on Friday, January 26, 2026.
The AGO’s Special Crimes Investigators conducted raids on six locations between January 28–29, 2026, including Siti Nurbaya’s residence in Jakarta. According to Syarief, investigators seized documents and electronic devices as part of the probe.
The search is related to Siti Nurbaya’s tenure as Minister of Environment and Forestry, a position she held twice under President Joko Widodo.
Law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said that the seized materials include evidence of the flow of billions of rupiah to ministry officials.
“Prosecutors found evidence of bribery transactions worth hundreds of billions of rupiah to certain officials of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry,” one source told Tempo.
The sources added that the alleged scheme involved bribing officials to approve the conversion of protected forests into production forests for certain companies. A shell company was reportedly used as a channel to funnel payments to several ministry officials.
Tempo attempted to reach Syarief for further comment but received no response. Efforts to contact Siti Nurbaya via WhatsApp were also unsuccessful.
Tempo later contacted her NasDem party colleagues, including Teuku Taufiqulhadi and Irma Suryani. Taufiqulhadi said he was unaware of the search, while Irma declined to comment.
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