KPK Reveals Alleged Fadia Arafiq Mobilized Outsourcing Employees to Win the Pekalongan Regional Election

JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) suspects that the non-active Regent of Pekalongan Fadia Arafiq mobilized outsourcing employees at his company, PT Raja Nusantara Berjaya (RNB) to win the 2024 Pilkada.

This was conveyed by KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo who initially said that Fadia was suspected of carrying out a number of conditioning to benefit himself through the outsourcing company. One of them, is winning the procurement of services.

"Where the modus operandi is that each service that wants to hold or procure goods and services is asked to provide HPS (own estimated price) so that it can be prepared to match the needs of these services so that this RNB can be won," Budi told reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Friday, May 29.

In addition, Budi also said that Fadia was suspected of arranging outsourcing employees who were assigned to a number of services. "Then we found information and information that there was a suspicion that these outsourcing staff, if they did not support FAR in the Pilkada contest, would be dismissed or replaced by other personnel," he said.

"This means that there is indeed an allegation of mobilization or deployment of these outsourcing staff in the election in Pekalongan," continued Budi.

Even so, Budi has not detailed the technicalities of the threat. But, he ensured that the investigation would be deepened.

The alleged mobilization of employees will also enrich the KPK. "Especially regarding the study of political parties and the public ... so that later the results and recommendations can also be more developed, more up-to-date in accordance with the development of engineering modes in the electoral process," explained Budi.

As previously reported, the KPK named the Regent of Pekalongan Fadia Arafiq as a suspect for allegedly arranging PT Raja Nusantara Berjaya (PT RNB) to monopoli outsourcing service projects in 17 regional devices, 3 RSUD, and 1 sub-district in Pekalongan Regency. He was caught in a hand-in-hand operation (OTT) on Tuesday, March 3.

PT RNB itself is known to have been founded by Fadia's husband and son, whose leadership was then handed over to his trusted employees.

In this case, the KPK suspects that the local government was forced to win PT RNB or the so-called "Parent Company". In fact, at the same time there were other vendors offering lower prices.

Throughout 2023 to 2026, there were transactions into PT RNB worth Rp. 46 billion sourced from contracts with regional devices in the Pekalongan Regency Government. Of that amount, Rp. 22 billion was used to pay the salaries of outsourcing employees.

Meanwhile, the rest or about 40 percent flowed into the pockets of Fadia, her husband and her children. Here are the details:

1. Fadia Arafiq as the Regent of Pekalongan enjoyed Rp5.5 billion;

2. Mukhtaruddin Ashraff Abu who is Fadia's husband enjoys Rp. 1.1 billion. Ashraff is currently serving as a member of the Indonesian House of Representatives for the 2024-2029 period from the Golkar Party Faction which serves on Commission X and serves as a commissioner at PT RNB;

3. Muhammad Sabiq Ashraff as the regent's son enjoyed Rp. 4.6 billion. Sabiq is a member of the Pekalongan Regency DPRD from the Golkar Party Faction (Dapil V). He also served as Director of PT RNB for the period 2022-2024;

4. Mehnaz NA as the regent's son enjoyed Rp2.5 billion;

5. Rul Bayatun as Director of PT RNB 2024–now/Person of Trust of the Regent: Enjoying Rp2.3 billion; and

6. Other cash withdrawals of IDR 3 billion.

In this case, Fadia is suspected of violating Article 12 letter i and Article 12 B of the Corruption Eradication Law in conjunction with Article 127 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code regarding conflicts of interest and abuse of authority in the procurement of goods and services.