JAKARTA - Former Minister of Youth and Sports (Menpora) Dito Ariotedjo fulfilled the call of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) today. He admitted that he was ready to be examined as a witness to the alleged corruption in determining quotas and the implementation of the 2023-2024 hajj at the Ministry of Religion (Kemenag).
"As citizens, yes, they must obey the law, right, obey the law," Dito told reporters at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Friday, January 24.
From monitoring at the location, Dito arrived at around 12.49 WIB. He was wearing a brown jacket with a black shirt inside. When asked about his examination, Dito admitted that he did not know the material.
He only agreed to be examined as a witness for the suspects in this case, namely the former Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas and staff in particular, Ishfah Abidal Aziz alias Gus Alex.
"Oh yes, maybe it's already circulating outside, what's its name ... when there was a working visit to Saudi Arabia, yes. At the same time as Mr. Jokowi (the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo). But later, for sure, I will follow up on the examination."
Meanwhile, KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo said Dito would be summoned in connection with the haj quota corruption case. However, he did not respond further to the examination.
Including when asked about the visit of former Indonesian President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to Saudi Arabia and meeting King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud to discuss additional quotas for Indonesian Hajj in 2024.
Dito at that time was known to still hold the post of Minister of Sports and was invited by Jokowi along with former BUMN Minister Erick Thohir and Pratikno, who was then Minister of State Secretary.
"We will wait for the examination, yes," said Budi.
"Because in principle the testimony of a witness is needed by investigators to help uncover the case to be clear," he continued.
As previously reported, the KPK has announced two suspects in the corruption case for determining quotas and organizing the 2023-2024 Hajj period at the Ministry of Religion. They are former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas and staff in particular, Ishfah Abidal Aziz alias Gus Alex.
The determination of the suspect was made later, because the KPK investigated the alleged corruption by using a general investigation order (sprindik) issued on August 7, 2025.
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 KPK said that the state's losses in the 2023-2024 quota and Hajj management corruption cases were said to have reached more than Rp. 1 trillion. The suspicion began 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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