JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said that the application for former Deputy Minister of Manpower (Wamenaker) Immanuel or Noel Ebenezer to be a house prisoner will be decided by the Panel of Judges of the Central Jakarta District Court (PN).
KPK spokesman Budi Prasetyo said it was not his agency that had the authority to decide on the application. Because, the corruption case of extortion and gratification of the management of the Occupational Safety and Health (K3) certification has been tried.
"Since the case has been transferred to the district court, the legal responsibility for detention has shifted from the public prosecutor to the judge," said Budi when confirmed by reporters quoted on Wednesday, March 25.
Meanwhile, Azis Yanuar as Noel Ebenezer's lawyer said his client's application was filed after seeing the former Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas whose status of detention was transferred from house detention (prison) to house detention.
"Yes, one of them (applying after seeing Yaqut as a house prisoner, ed)," Azis Yanuar told reporters quoted on Tuesday, March 24.
Azis said Noel, who is now a defendant in the case of extortion of safety and occupational health (K3) certification at the Ministry of Manpower (Kemenaker), needs medical treatment. He also wants to celebrate Easter in early April.
"Noel according to the doctor from the last examination must take medical action such as a small operation on the head and it must be hospitalized and intensive. Then because of welcoming Easter," he said.
As previously reported, former Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas has been under house arrest since Thursday, March 19. The transfer of the status of detention was carried out after there was a request from the family on March 17 or five days after the detention on Thursday, March 12.
This incident then became a controversy in the community. A number of parties, including former investigators, highlighted the KPK's attitude because the change of the status of detention was the first time it was carried out.
Meanwhile, the KPK said that the change in status from prison detention to house arrest was claimed by the KPK to have been reviewed and in accordance with Article 108 paragraph (1) and (11) of Law Number 20 of 2025 concerning the Criminal Procedure Code.
Article 108 paragraph (11) regulates that the transfer of type of detention can be carried out based on an investigation order which is given to the suspect, the suspect's family, and the interested parties.
After the controversy arose, Yaqut was then detained again at the KPK Red and White Branch Detention Center on Tuesday, March 24. This process was carried out after the former minister of the 7th President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) underwent a health check-up at Bhayangkara Hospital Tk. I. R. Said Sukanto, East Jakarta on Monday, March 23.
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