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        "id": 1588660,
        "msgid": "kpk-responds-to-yaqut-in-pretrial-hearing-1772672202",
        "date": "2026-03-05 06:30:23",
        "title": "KPK Responds to Yaqut in Pretrial Hearing",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "At the Jakarta Selatan District Court, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has responded to former Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas in the ongoing pretrial hearing. The KPK argued that most of Yaqut's arguments concern the designation letter, notification of designation, state losses, and other procedural matters that fall outside the scope of a pretrial hearing, and urged the judge to dismiss the petition as obscur libel and error in objecto. The KPK also disclosed that state losses in the Hajj quota case amount to Rp 622,090,207,166 and defended the legality of the investigation.",
        "content": "<p>The pretrial case brought by former Minister of Religious Affairs\nYaqut Cholil Qoumas continues in court. It is now the KPK\u2019s turn to\nrespond to Yaqut at the hearing. KPK\u2019s Legal Bureau team said that\nYaqut\u2019s pretrial pleas largely concern the designation letter of the\nsuspect, the notice of designation, the authority of the Respondent\u2019s\nleadership in the designation letter, the calculation of state losses,\nand the criminal procedure law applied in handling the matter \u2014 issues\nthat are not within the scope of a pretrial or outside the formal\naspects within the jurisdiction of the pretrial judge. The scope of a\npretrial judge is defined by Article 1(10) read together with Article 77\nof the KUHAP 1981, the Constitutional Court decision No.\u00a021 of 2014\ndated 28 April 2015, and PERMA No.\u00a04 of 2016. The calculation of state\nlosses is also not within the scope of pretrial. \u201cThat the designation\nletter and the notice of designation are administrative documents in\ninvestigations or judicial administration, not coercive measures, and\nthus lie outside pretrial,\u201d the KPK Legal Bureau team said. \u201cLikewise\nwith the authority of the Respondent, the calculation of state losses,\nand the criminal procedure applied in handling the case are not within\nthe scope of pretrial,\u201d they added. The KPK said a pretrial judge does\nnot have the authority to assess the substance or core issues of a\ncorruption offence, especially given that a pretrial hearing is\nconducted by a single judge with a seven-day time limit after\nproceedings commence. The KPK contends Yaqut\u2019s request should be\nrejected. \u201cThus the applicant\u2019s arguments, which mix the substance of\nthe case with the remit of the Anti-Corruption Court\u2019s authority, render\nthe pleas unclear or obscur libel,\u201d it said. State Loss in Hajj Case Rp\n622 Billion The KPK said the Audit Board of Indonesia (BPK) has\ncompleted the calculation of state losses in the Hajj quota case. The\nstate loss in the matter amounted to Rp 622,090,207,166, thereby meeting\nthe criteria of Article 11(1)(d) of Law No.\u00a030\/2002 on the KPK, which\nconcerns losses of at least Rp 1 billion. The process of naming Yaqut as\na suspect had satisfied the minimum two admissible pieces of evidence.\nThe KPK said it had taken statements from more than 40 people. \u201cThus,\nthe designation of the applicant as a suspect has gone through a\nsequence of data collection, information, statements, and leads, thereby\nmeeting the sufficiency of evidence via two pieces of evidence,\u201d the KPK\nsaid. The KPK stated the pretrial pleas are \u2018error in objecto\u2019. They\nsaid Yaqut\u2019s petition has mixed substantive matter with the scope of\npretrial. \u201cTherefore, the applicant\u2019s pleas do not fall within the scope\nof pretrial or are error in objecto, and the application should be\ndismissed or at least declared inadmissible,\u201d it said. KPK asks the\nJudge to Reject the Pretrial The KPK urged the single judge of the\nJakarta Selatan District Court to dismiss Yaqut\u2019s pretrial petition. The\nKPK asked the judge to declare Yaqut\u2019s pretrial requests unclear and\nblurry. \u201cIn preliminary objections: (1) accept and grant the\nRespondent\u2019s exception in full; (2) declare the plea as \u2018error in\nobjecto\u2019; (3) declare the plea unclear, blurry, obscur libel,\u201d the KPK\u2019s\nLegal Bureau team said. The KPK asked the judge to accept all responses\nto Yaqut\u2019s praperadilan and to declare the designation of Yaqut as\nsuspect in this matter valid and legally grounded. It also asked the\njudge to declare the Respondent authorised to conduct the investigation\nand that the investigation was lawful. The search of Yaqut in this case\nfollowed the court\u2019s permission; Yaqut was also questioned prior to\nbeing named as a suspect, and he was informed of the designation in\naccordance with laws and the Constitutional Court ruling,\u201d the team\nadded. \u201cThree, declare the designation of the suspect as valid and\ngrounded in law; four, declare the Respondent authorised to conduct the\ninvestigation; five, declare the Respondent\u2019s investigations in the\nmatter lawful,\u201d the KPK\u2019s Legal Bureau team concluded.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/kpk-responds-to-yaqut-in-pretrial-hearing-1772672202",
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