JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned the former Minister of Religion, Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, today, December 16. He will be questioned regarding the alleged corruption in determining quotas and the implementation of the 2023-2024 hajj at the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag).
"The summons to examine brother YCQ, Minister of Religion for the period 2020-2024, has been scheduled," KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo told reporters in his statement, Tuesday, December 16.
Budi said the request for information would be carried out at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta. "We believe Mr. Yaqut will be present in today's request for information."
Meanwhile, the acting (Plt) Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK, Asep Guntur Rahayu, said that the summons letter to Yaqut had been sent since last week. Even so, he did not want to talk about when the time was right. "Basically, it's waiting," he said, who also served as the KPK's Director of Investigation.
In this case, Yaqut has already been questioned on September 1. At that time, he was questioned about the different rules for distributing the additional 20,000 Hajj quotas that Indonesia received from the Saudi Arabian government in 2023-2024.
As previously reported, the KPK has issued a general investigation order (sprindik) for alleged corruption in adding quotas and organizing the hajj. This institution reasoned that the issuance was carried out so that they could carry out coercive efforts.
The Sprindik general uses Article 2 Paragraph 1 and/or Article 3 of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption as amended by Law Number 20 of 2021 jo article 55 paragraph 1-1 of the Criminal Code. This means that there is state loss that occurs due to this corrupt practice.
The state's losses in the 2023-2024 quota and Hajj corruption cases are said to have reached more than Rp1 trillion. This number is still increasing because it is only the initial count of the KPK which continues to coordinate with the Financial Supervisory Board (BPK).
This case started with the provision of 20,000 additional Hajj quotas from the Saudi Arabian government for Indonesia to reduce the queue of pilgrims.
However, recently the distribution turned out to be problematic because it was divided equally, namely 50 percent for regular hajj and 50 percent for special hajj.
In fact, according to the law, the distribution should be 92 percent for regular hajj and 8 percent for special hajj.
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