JAKARTA - Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Setyo Budiyanto said investigators were still investigating allegations of corruption in the distribution of quotas and the implementation of the Hajj pilgrimage in 2023-2024.
Several things continue to be explored, he said. One of them, regarding the number of hajj quotas, one of the travel agents or the Hajj and Umrah Maktour agents whose owner, Fuad Hasan Masyhur, has been prevented from leaving the country.
"Then we also asked about some (special hajj chiefs, ed) who (received, red) travel agents (Maktour, ed) yes, of course, this is not a little material, right," Setyo told reporters at the KPK's Merah Putih building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Wednesday, December 3.
However, Setyo did not say much when asked about Fuad's alleged lobbying the Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas regarding the distribution of 20,000 additional hajj quotas from the Saudi Arabian government. He only stated that investigators were still continuing to deepen the information that had been pocketed.
The distribution of the hajj quota becomes problematic because the 20,000 additional quotas are divided equally or 50 percent for regular Hajj and 50 percent for special Hajj based on the Decree of the Minister of Religion.
In fact, referring to Law Number 8 of 2019 concerning the Implementation of Hajj and Umrah, 20,000 additional Hajj quotas from the Saudi Arabian government should be divided into 92 percent for regular Hajj and 8 percent for special Hajj.
"This is where we want to determine whether this is indeed a request for coming from below or whether there is a desire from above or maybe the term is from the state administrator or the government, in this case, the government has published the details," said Setyo, who has also served as Director of KPK Investigation.
Previously reported, KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo revealed that three people who were prevented from leaving the country in the alleged corruption of quotas and the implementation of the 2023-2024 Hajj pilgrimage at the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag) had their respective roles. Fuad Hasan Masyhur as the owner of the Maktour Hajj organizing bureau, for example, is suspected of having played a role in the process of determining the distribution of additional quotas.
As for this case, Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, Ishfah Abidal Aziz alias Gus Alex who was special staff when Yaqut served as Minister of Religion, and Fuad Hasan Masyhur had been prevented from leaving the country some time ago.
"This is a pre- and post-investigation. Pre-discretion means it is related to whether there are motives, initiatives and encouragements (in the distribution of an additional 20,000 Hajj quota from Saudi Arabia, ed). But if the deepening is about post-discretion, it means the distribution of the special additional quota," said KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo to reporters, Wednesday, December 3.
"Well, what is done is to prevent foreign affairs, one of which is from the MT travel, the private sector," continued Budi.
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