KPK Raids Several Rooms at Pekalongan Regional Secretariat in Corruption Case Involving Pekalongan Regent
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Raids Several Rooms at Pekalongan Regional Secretariat in Corruption Case Involving Pekalongan Regent
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has again carried out searches, this time in a number of rooms at the Pekalongan Regency’s Regional Secretariat (Setda) on Friday afternoon (6 March), seizing documents connected to the probe into alleged corruption by Pekalongan Regent Fadia Arafiq. Media monitoring indicated that by Friday afternoon the KPK team was still conducting searches in multiple rooms at the Setda, including the Regent’s office. Several other rooms remained sealed, and staff activities in other parts of the Pekalongan Regency appeared to proceed normally, particularly in public service areas.
“There were four rooms planned to be searched today; they have been conducting searches in the regent’s room since earlier,” said M Yulian Akbar, the Sekda (secretary) of Pekalongan Regency. In addition to the regent’s room, Akbar said the secretary’s office, the head of general affairs division, and the head of the economic affairs division were also searched. “According to plan, after the regent’s room, the other rooms will follow,” he added.
Sekda Yulian Akbar, who also underwent questioning at Pekalongan Kota Police and in Jakarta, said he remained active at work, though his office was still sealed by the KPK. Regarding his own examination at the KPK in connection with the case against Regent Fadia Arafiq, Akbar declined to comment further. “Better to ask the KPK; after returning from the anti-graft agency I will resume my duties,” he said.
Regent Fadia Arafiq remains the only suspect in the outsourcing tender case within Pekalongan Regency. It is alleged that she asked officials to involve her company as the winner of outsourcing tenders. (H-4)
The KPK has previously disclosed the involvement of the Regent’s family in project-intervention activity, including details about PT RNB, a company owned by Fadia Arafiq’s family, allegedly monopolising regional projects. The agency has also scheduled examinations of the Regent’s husband (a member of the DPR) and the Regent’s son in connection with the Rp19 billion flow of funds connected to the case and PT Raja Nusantara Berjaya.
Public support for the KPK surged after the arrest of Pekalongan Regent Fadia Arafiq in relation to a Rp46 billion outsourcing project.”