Attorney General's Office Seizes Electronic Evidence Following Search of Ombudsman Commissioner Yeka Hendra
Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) has seized several documents and electronic evidence following searches at the office and residence of Ombudsman Commissioner Yeka Hendra Fatika (YH). The searches are reported to be connected to alleged corruption in crude oil administration.
“There are documents and electronic evidence,” said Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, Director of Investigation for the Special Crimes Division (Dirdik Jampidsus) of the Attorney General’s Office, on Tuesday (10 March 2026).
Syarief stated that the search targeted Yeka’s residence in the Cibubur area of East Jakarta. “If I recall correctly, (the area) Cibubur,” he said.
The searches at both locations were conducted on Monday (9 March). Attorney General investigators were observed leaving the Ombudsman’s office building on Jalam Rasuna Said in South Jakarta at approximately 17:10 Western Indonesian Time.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General’s Office Legal Affairs Chief Anang Supriatna said the searches were related to a bribery case involving a not-guilty verdict in a cooking oil (migor) matter currently under investigation by the Attorney General’s Office. He referenced an Ombudsman recommendation regarding cooking oil scarcity from several years earlier.
“He is charged under Article 21, which concerns obstruction of investigation and prosecution in that cooking oil case, the acquittal that resulted from it,” he said.
The matter began with the acquittal of three corporations prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office on 19 March 2025: Wilmar Group, Musim Mas Group and Permata Hijau Group. Upon investigation, the acquittal was allegedly predetermined, with suspects including prosecutors, judges and lawyers implicated.
The acquittal was partly based on an Administrative Court (PTUN) ruling favouring the corporations involved.
One key factor was an Ombudsman recommendation concluding there was “maladministration” in crude palm oil (CPO) export policy.
Prosecutors suspect there was manipulation behind the Ombudsman’s recommendation. This suspicion prompted the investigation into the Ombudsman Commissioner’s office and residence, as they are suspected of involvement in the alleged manipulation scheme.
“Correct, partly (related to the Ombudsman recommendation for the PTUN lawsuit),” Anang said when asked whether the background to the searches concerned the Ombudsman recommendation when the corporations filed suit at the Administrative Court.
According to Anang, the actions of the Ombudsman Commissioner should be suspected of obstructing the investigation conducted by prosecutors. The consequences of such actions allegedly allowed the corporations to temporarily evade legal sanction.