REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has detected an alleged theft of illegal money from a Hajj travel agency to the Ministry of Religious Affairs (Ministry of Religious Affairs). This payment concerns the issue of the additional Hajj quota for 2024 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The KPK also discovered allegations of money flows from this travel agency to parties in the Ministry of Religious Affairs,” KPK Spokesman Budi Prasetyo said on Tuesday (16/9/2025). Thus, in the construction of this case, the KPK needs to see fully why then alleged acts against its law are then allegedly resulting in financial losses for the state. For the time being, the KPK did not detail the flow of money in question because it concerns the subject matter.
“The next element is also the alleged enrichment of oneself or the other party. From where? From these alleged money flows,” Budi said. On this basis, the KPK considers that this matter needs to be read in its entirety in order to understand it from beginning to end.
The KPK's way of debunking this case is by investigating witnesses across organizations such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, BPKH, associations, Hajj travel agencies. “Therefore, the KPK then called these travel agencies who get special quotas,” Budi said.
Earlier, the KPK revealed that associations representing travel companies lobbied the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to obtain more quotas for special hajj. The KPK sniffed out more than 100 hajj and umrah travellers suspected of being involved in this case of alleged Hajj quota corruption.
However, the KPK has yet to detail the hundreds of travel agents. KPK says that each traveler gets a different number of special Hajj quotas. It is based on how big or small the trip is.
From the initial calculations, the KPK claims the state's losses in this matter amounted to more than Rp 1 trillion. The KPK has raised the matter to the stage of investigation although the suspect has not yet been revealed. The determination of suspects refers to Article 2 paragraph (1) or Article 3 of Law No. 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of the Crime of Corruption as amended by Law No. 20 of 2001, as well as Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.
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