Gus Yaqut faction questions the validity of the Rp 622 billion loss calculation in the Hajj quota case

Yaqut Cholil Qoumas’s camp questions the validity of the calculation of state financial losses amounting to Rp 622 billion in the Hajj quota corruption case. They say the calculation has not yet been subject to an audit, but is merely the result of an investigative examination. ‘Of course we still question the validity of that state loss calculation. Because even from this response, the nature of it is not an audit result, but still the result of an investigative examination,’ said Yaqut’s counsel Mellisa Anggraini after a praperadilan hearing at the South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday (4 March 2026). Mellisa said Yaqut was named a suspect before any loss calculation had been established. She said the designation of the suspect was procedurally flawed and unlawful. ‘We will certainly enter the evidentiary realm; we will question it. But what is certain is that from the suspect designation against Gus Yaqut, there has been no audit result. No audit result has ever appeared,’ she said. ‘In other words, Gus Yaqut was named a suspect without there being any state losses. Earlier they even mentioned Rp 1 trillion, Rp 1.6 trillion; eventually it was down to Rp 600 billion, and we are still questioning that as well,’ she added. Mellisa said they had not yet received a copy of the Rp 622 billion loss calculation. According to her, the loss calculation was not an LHP (Audit Report) from BPK RI. ‘So, before we receive it, we question whether it is merely a provisional report or a periodic report, or still an LHP. Because in this letter we see that it is not an LHP; BPK Number 36/SR/Waka; that is not an LHP,’ she said. ‘But we are dealing with a praperadilan case, so our scope is the praperadilan — that the loss to the state did not occur,’ she added. Previously, the KPK stated that the Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan (BPK) had completed the calculation of state losses in the 2024 Hajj quota case implicating former Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, or Gus Yaqut, as a suspect. The KPK disclosed losses in the case amounting to Rp 622,000,000,166. ‘In essence, in the subject criminal case, a loss to the state amounting to Rp 622,090,207,166 has occurred, so clearly the corruption related to the Hajj quota case meets the criteria of Article 11(1)(d) of the KPK Law, namely losses of at least Rp 1 billion,’ said the KPK Legal Bureau Team at the South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday (4 March). The KPK said the process of naming Yaqut as a suspect had satisfied the minimum two valid pieces of evidence. The KPK said it had taken statements from more than 40 people. ‘Thus, the grounds of the Applicant’s request for a praperadilan do not lie within the scope of praperadilan or error in objecto, and therefore the praperadilan request should be rejected or at least declared inadmissible,’ the KPK noted.