Football And Volleyball Athletes Allegedly Become Victims Of Extortion While Managing Foreign Workers' Permits At The Ministry Of Manpower

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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said foreign workers who were allegedly blackmailed while applying for permits at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) came from many sectors. Including, athletes who want to have a career in Indonesia.

"So there are footballers, then volleyball and others," said Acting Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur Rahayu, quoted on Friday, July 25.

Even so, Asep did not want to specify who they were. "So it's not only in the industrial sector," said the KPK Director of Investigation.

Previously reported, the KPK has detained eight suspects suspected of extorting foreign workers' permits (TKA) at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker) for the 2019-2024 period.

Two of them were Suhartono and Haryanto who had served as Director General of Manpower Placement and Expansion of Job Opportunities (Binapenta and PKK) of the Ministry of Manpower. They are suspected of having participated in the flow of extortion money from foreign workers whose value reached Rp53.7 billion.

Meanwhile, the other suspect is Wisnu Pramono as Director of PPTKA of the Ministry of Manpower; Devi Anggraeni as Coordinator of the PPTKA Feasibility Test for the period 2020-July 2024 then became Director of PPTKA for the period 2024-2025; Gatot Widiartono as Coordinator of Analysis and Control of Foreign Workers The Directorate of Control of the Use of Foreign Workers of the Ministry of Manpower; and Putri Citra Wahyoe, Jamal Shodiqin, and Alfa Eshad who are staff at the Directorate General of Binapenta and PPK.

The following are the details of the receipt of extortion money carried out by the suspects:

1. Suhartono received IDR 460 million; 2. Haryanto received IDR 18 billion;3. Wisnu Pramono received IDR 580 million; 4. Devi Anggraeni received IDR 2.3 billion; 5. Gatot Widiarto received IDR 6.3 billion; 6. Putri Citra Wahyo received IDR 13.9 billion; 7. Alfa Eshad received IDR 1.8 billion; and 8. Jamal Shodiqin received IDR 1.1 billion.

Then there was money distributed to almost all employees at the PPTAK Directorate and referred to as two-weekly money. The nominal is said to reach Rp. 8.94 billion.