JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) plans to examine the Deputy Chairman of Commission XI of the DPR, Hanif Dhakiri, in the extortion case for handling the plan for the use of foreign labor (RPTKA). He will be questioned in his capacity as a former Minister of Manpower and Transmigration (Kemenakertrans).
This was conveyed by KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo who initially said Hanif should have been examined on Friday, January 23. However, the anti-corruption commission did not include the name of the National Awakening Party (PKB) politician in the schedule.
"So, last week the investigators confirmed that they had scheduled an examination of HD's brother (Hanif Dhakiri) as a former minister of employment in the continuation of the investigation into the case related to RPTKA," Budi told reporters quoted on Thursday, January 28.
Budi said, Hanif was not present at that time so the rescheduling was carried out by investigators. "We are still waiting for confirmation, later if there is a rescheduling we will update," he said.
Hanif's statement is needed to complete the case file of the former Secretary General of the Ministry of Manpower Hery Sudarmanto who has become a suspect.
Hery allegedly received a number of funds related to the management of RPTKA since the previous period or when Hanif served as the Minister of Manpower and Transmigration. "What is the process (receipt of RPTKA extortion money, ed)," he said.
As previously reported, the KPK developed a case of extortion for handling RPTKA permits at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemnaker). Heri Sudarmanto as the former Secretary General of the Ministry of Manpower was named a suspect based on an investigation order (sprindik) issued in October 2025.
He is suspected of enjoying extortion money since serving as the Director of PPTKA for the period 2010-2015; Director General of Binapenta for the period 2015-2017, Secretary General of the Ministry of Manpower for the period 2017-2018, and the Main Function 2018-2023 then continued after he retired.
After the determination of the suspect, the KPK also seized assets belonging to Heri which were allegedly named by other people. Among them are land in Central Java to the 2024 Toyota Innova Zenix.
In this case, the KPK has previously named eight suspects and now they have status as defendants because they are undergoing trial. Two of them are Suhartono and Haryanto who served as Director General of Manpower Placement and Employment Expansion (Binapenta and PKK) of the Ministry of Manpower.
They are suspected of feeling the flow of extortion money from the TKA agent, which amounted to Rp53.7 billion.
Meanwhile, for the other suspects are Wisnu Pramono as the Director of PPTKA Kemnaker; Devi Anggraeni as the Coordinator of the PPTKA Eligibility Test period 2020-July 2024 then became the Director of PPTKA period 2024-2025; Gatot Widiartono as the Coordinator of the Foreign Labor Analysis and Control Directorate of the Foreign Labor Control Directorate 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.
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