KPK Responds to Ethics Complaint by Lawyer of Former Deputy Manpower Minister Noel Regarding Yaqut's House Arrest

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has responded to the ethics complaint submitted by Aziz Yanuar, lawyer for former Deputy Minister of Manpower (Wamenaker) Immanuel Ebenezer alias Noel, to the KPK Supervisory Board (Dewas). KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo stated that the complaint regarding the controversy over changing the detention status of former Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas is a reasonable action. “The KPK views the complaint submitted to the Supervisory Board as entirely legitimate. This complaint is part of the public oversight mechanism guaranteed by legislation,” Budi said in his statement on Friday (27/3/2026). “This process is part of the checks and balances system to maintain institutional integrity and accountability,” he added. Budi also assured that all processes and steps taken in handling the alleged hajj quota corruption case have been carried out by the KPK in accordance with mechanisms, procedures, and applicable legal provisions. Previously, Aziz Yanuar reported KPK leaders and enforcement personnel to the KPK Supervisory Board on Friday (27/3/2026). In his report, Aziz Yanuar represented himself as Chairman of the DPP of the Islamic Brotherhood Advocates. “We submitted this report to the KPK Supervisory Board at the Education Centre building earlier. The matter we raised concerns the description resulting from the event of changing the type of detention from rutan detention to house arrest for one of the suspects at the KPK,” Aziz said at the Red and White Building, Jakarta, on Friday (27/3/2026). Aziz stated that his side submitted documents containing several matters violated by KPK leaders and their staff, including the basic values of justice, professionalism, transparency, and government ethics. “It is true that what is stated in the Criminal Procedure Code, in legislation, every detainee or ward has the right to that. But this is an anomaly related to the extrajudicial crime committed by the suspect,” he said. Aziz mentioned that reports to the KPK Supervisory Board are usually followed up within 1-2 weeks. “We leave the sanctions to the Supervisory Board, of course. There are actions that I believe must be firm against them. Of course, they have their own mechanisms, we don’t want to intervene further, but we hope these sanctions will have a deterrent effect,” he said.