JAKARTA - Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) Coordinator Boyamin Saiman asked the Supervisory Board of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to impose a salary deduction sanction against five KPK leaders.
Boyamin made this request after being examined by the KPK Supervisory Board as a reporter of alleged ethical violations related to the transfer of the status of detention of the former Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas. He was questioned at the KPK ACLC building, Rasuna Said, Jakarta.
"I have carried out and completed the examination or clarification by the Supervisory Board regarding the complaint related to the transfer of Gus Yaqut's detention," Boyamin told reporters at the KPK's Red and White building, Kuningan Persada, South Jakarta, Monday, April 20.
"The first is that I have submitted my conviction for a minimum 5 percent salary cut sanction against the KPK leadership," he continued.
Boyamin said this request was only submitted to the leaders, not to the Deputy for Enforcement and Execution of the KPK Asep Guntur Rahayu and KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo.
"If it is against Mr. Asep and Mr. Jubir, it is not because they are actually just carrying out orders," he said.
Boyamin also touched on the special treatment of Yaqut from the leaders. External interventions are also suspected to have occurred and he has conveyed it to the KPK Supervisory Board.
"I believe there is a suspicion of outside intervention that the leadership cannot reject and there were some puzzles that I conveyed to the Dewas KPK," said Boyamin.
Then, Boyamin also alluded to the fact that there was no apology from the five KPK leaders. In fact, the change in Yaqut's detention status had caused a commotion.
"That, in my opinion, is the next mistake because the only one who apologized was Mr. Asep," he explained.
"The KPK leadership, the incident in Semarang, the reporter wants to ask directly, he ran into the car. ... so there is no one who defends himself or makes a clarification and also no one apologizes. That is the most fatal mistake in my opinion, the KPK leadership."
As previously reported, former Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas had 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.
The KPK claims that the change in status from prison detention to house arrest has been reviewed and is 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 polemics, the KPK again detained Yaqut at the Red and White KPK Branch Detention Center on Tuesday, March 24. This process began with a health examination first at Bhayangkara Hospital Tk. I. R. Said Sukanto, East Jakarta on Monday, March 23.
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