Jakarta, April 16 -- The Indonesian Attorney General's Office has named Hery Susanto, the Chairman of the National Ombudsman for the 2026-2031 term, as a suspect in a corruption case involving nickel mining governance between 2013 and 2025.

Director of Investigation for the Assistant Attorney General for Extraordinary Crimes, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, said on Thursday that the alleged crimes occurred while Susanto was serving as an Ombudsman Commissioner during his previous 2021-2026 term.

Prosecutors allege that Susanto accepted bribes from a private firm, PT TSHI, in exchange for manipulating non-tax state revenue (PNBP) calculations to benefit the company.

"The suspect was named after investigators obtained sufficient evidence through...