KPK Seizes Mobile Phones Following Search of Cilacap Regent's Official Residence and Office

The Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) has conducted raids at multiple locations in Cilacap, Central Java, to gather evidence in an alleged extortion case involving Regent Syamsul Auliya Rachman.

The locations searched include the Official Residence and Office of the Regent, the Office of the Regional Secretary, and the Offices of Assistants 1, 2, and 3.

“During the searches, investigators secured and seized a number of documents and several pieces of electronic evidence, including mobile phones containing messages related to the collection of money from heads of regional working units to their respective department heads,” stated KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo in a written statement on Monday, 16 March.

Prasetyo stated that investigators will conduct extraction and analysis of all seized evidence.

The KPK has recently detained Cilacap Regent for the 2025-2030 term Syamsul Auliya Rachman and Regional Secretary of Cilacap Regency Sadmoko Danardono as suspects in an alleged extortion and receipt of unlawful funds case for the 2025-2026 financial year.

The suspects are believed to have demanded funds from each regional apparatus in Cilacap Regency with collection “targets” of 750 million rupiah. These funds were intended as year-end allowances for external parties.

Cilacap Regency has 25 regional devices, 2 general regional hospitals, and 20 community health centres.

Initially, each working unit was targeted to deposit between 75 million and 100 million rupiah. However, the actual deposits received varied, ranging from 3 million to 100 million rupiah per regional apparatus.

During the period of 9-13 March 2025, 23 regional devices of Cilacap Regency deposited the regent’s request, collected through FER (Ferry Adhi Dharma, Assistant II of Cilacap Regency), totalling 610 million rupiah.

The deposited funds would be handed over by FER to Sadmoko Danardono, the Regional Secretary of Cilacap.

For their actions, Syamsul Auliya Rachman and Sadmoko Danardono are charged with violating Article 12 letter e and/or Article 12B of the Law on Eradication of Corruption Offences (Law on Corruption) in conjunction with Article 20 letter c of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code.

Both have been detained for an initial period of 20 days from 14 March to 2 April 2026 at the State Detention House (Rutan) Branch of the KPK’s Red and White Building.