"(The money laundering cases) may involve trillions of rupiahs. We have data about them but we cannot divulge them in advance," Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Panjaitan said at the KPK building here on Thursday.
Panjaitan met with the five new KPK commissioners - Agus Rahardjo, Basaria Panjaitan, Alexander Marwata, Saut Situmorang and Laode M Syarif - to conduct coordination.
He is the first cabinet member to have met the five KPK commissioners following their inauguration in December last year.
"As the chief of TPPU (money laundering prevention and eradication team), I see many kinds of funds can be taxed to increase tax receipts. The cooperation between the TPPU, the KPK and the directorate general of taxation is aimed at encouraging more tax payments. We all know that almost thousands of trillions have not been taxed. We want this problem to be resolved soon," he said.
The National Coordinating Committee for Money Laundering Prevention and Eradication was set up on January 11, 2012 based on Presidential Regulation No.6/2012.
The committee is led by the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, with the coordinating minister for economic affairs as deputy chairman, the chief of the Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis as secretary, and the Bank Indonesia governor, the finance minister, the foreign minister, the law and human rights minister, the home affairs minister, the attorney general, the National Police chief, the chief of the State Intelligence Body (BIN), the chief of the National Counter-Terrorism Board and the chief of the National Narcotic Agency (BNN) as members.
"We want the number of taxpayers to increase. The number of taxpayers now reaches less than one million. We try to increase the number of taxpayers and state revenues from taxes will increase accordingly," he said.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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