KPK Expert Reveals Report on State Losses in the New Hajj Quota Case Completed One Month After the Determination of the Suspect

Continuation of the pre-trial hearing of former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas

Expert from the Financial Audit Agency (BPK) Najmatuzzahrah revealed that the report on state losses in the Hajj quota case that ensnared the former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas was only completed at the end of February 2026.

The report on state losses was completed just over a month after Yaqut was named a suspect by the KPK.

This was conveyed by Najmatuzzahrah in Yaqut's pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, Friday, March 6. Najmatuzzahrah was present as an expert from the KPK.

"Show it, show it again, the date, the LHP (Report of the Results of the Inspection) is on the 20th, it was submitted on February 24," he said in court.

What Najmatuzzahrah said was in line with the argument of Yaqut's pretrial application. Where, Yaqut's lawyer in the previous trial also explained that based on the Supreme Court's decision No. 25 of 2016, the implementation of Articles 2 and 3 of the Corruption Law must be based on an audit of the calculation of state financial losses.

Yaqut himself was named a suspect on January 8, 2026.

"However, after the MKRI Decision 25/PUU-XIV/2016, the interpretation has changed fundamentally. The Constitutional Court emphasized that the element of 'can cause financial loss to the state' must be interpreted as a real, certain, and concretely calculable loss, so that Article 2 and Article 3 of the Tipikor Law are now material delicts. So, the evidence possessed by the investigators must be directed at proving the existence of financial losses to the state," explained lawyer Yaqut, Mellisa Anggraeni in a trial at the South Jakarta District Court, Thursday, March 4.

Previously, a criminal law expert who was also presented by the KPK, Erdianto said Articles 2 and 3 of the Corruption Crime Law (UU Tipikor) could be applied if there were results of an audit of the calculation of state financial losses. As is known, the article in question was used in the determination of the Yaqut suspect.

"The potential losses that arise can be considered completed criminal acts as in Articles 2 and 3 of the old Tipikor Law. The potential alone is already a perfect criminal act. But then with the decision of the Constitutional Court (MK), it shifted to a material offense. There must first be state losses," said Erdianto in the pretrial hearing of Yaqut at the South Jakarta District Court, Friday, March 6.