Febrie Adriansyah Named Suspect, Mahfud MD's Call for Police-AGO Corruption Race Proves Prescient

The statement by Mahfud MD, who invited the National Police and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) to compete in uncovering corruption cases, has come under the spotlight after both institutions aggressively exposed graft cases. The former Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs for the 2019–2024 period had previously expressed appreciation to the National Police for successfully uncovering the alleged concealment of assets resulting from corruption in a café and several other locations. At the same time, Mahfud MD also praised the AGO’s steps in continuing to take action against alleged corruption, including cases related to the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) and the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme. “Congratulations to the National Police for breaking through the wall concealing assets suspected to be proceeds of corruption in a café and several other points,” Mahfud said, as quoted from his personal X account on Saturday, 11 July 2026. “Congratulations to the AGO for continuing to hunt down corruptors at BGN and MBG,” he continued. Mahfud MD encouraged the two law enforcement institutions to continue improving corruption eradication. According to him, the more cases that are successfully uncovered, the greater the opportunity to strengthen law enforcement in Indonesia. “Please compete to expose corruption. That is good for corruption eradication,” he said. Mahfud’s statement is now considered to be in line with the latest developments. The National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps (Kortastipidkor) named two suspects in a case of alleged corruption, bribery, gratuities and money laundering related to PT Asabri on Saturday, 11 July 2026. The two suspects are former Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) Febrie Adriansyah and Don Ritto. Head of the National Police’s Kortastipidkor, Inspector General Totok Suharyanto, said the National Police had transferred the handling of three alleged corruption and money laundering cases to the AGO as a form of inter-agency synergy. “We have agreed with the AGO that the handling of investigations into three cases has been transferred to the AGO in the context of synergy as conveyed by the Acting Jampidsus,” Totok said. Totok explained that investigators had examined 15 witnesses and two experts, as well as searched a number of locations during the investigation process. “At one point, we conducted a case review. Based on that case review, we have named two suspects, namely Mr DR, who is suspected of committing money laundering originating from a criminal act of corruption,” Totok stated.