KPK to summon Fuad Hasan, Maktour and SATHU Forum representatives in hajj quota corruption investigation
Jakarta — The Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) has stated it will summon Fuad Hasan Masyhur (FHM), chairman of the Steering Board of the Hajj and Umrah Travel Association Networking Forum (SATHU) and owner of Maktour hajj travel agency.
The KPK will also summon other representatives from Maktour and the SATHU Forum. These summons are planned following the KPK’s detention of former Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas and former special staff to the Religious Affairs Minister Ishfah Abidal Aziz, known as Gus Alex, in an investigation into alleged corruption in hajj quota distribution.
“Certainly, investigators will conduct further summons to private sector parties. One is from Maktour or the SATHU association, where in the case structure we have already explained the roles played by FHM in the process of distributing additional hajj quotas for both 2023 and 2024,” said KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo at the KPK’s Red-White Building headquarters in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Budi explained that the KPK plans to conduct these summons because the anti-corruption agency wants to further investigate the roles of Fuad, Maktour and the SATHU Forum in the hajj quota case.
“We want to understand their roles more deeply, and then what the impact of the distribution of additional hajj quotas was on the associations and the special hajj organisers (PIHK), so that the KPK will then identify which PIHK organisations benefited from the discretionary distribution of hajj quotas by the Ministry of Religious Affairs,” he said.
Previously, on 9 August 2025, the KPK began investigating alleged corruption related to Indonesia’s hajj quotas for 2023-2024. On 11 August 2025, the KPK announced an initial calculation of state losses in the case totalling more than Rp1 trillion and prevented three individuals from travelling abroad for up to six months. Those prevented were Yaqut, Ishfah Abidal Aziz and Fuad Hasan Masyhur.
On 9 January 2026, the KPK announced that two of the three individuals prevented from travelling became suspects in the alleged hajj quota corruption case: Yaqut and Gus Alex. However, Yaqut filed a pre-trial motion at the South Jakarta District Court on 10 February 2026, registered under case number 19/Pid.Pra/2026/PN JKT.SEL.
On 19 February 2026, the KPK announced an extension of the travel ban only for Yaqut and Gus Alex, with Fuad’s ban not being extended. On 27 February 2026, the KPK announced it had received an audit from the State Audit Board (BPK) regarding state financial losses from the hajj quota case. On 4 March 2026, the KPK announced state financial losses from the case totalled Rp622 billion.
On 11 March 2026, the South Jakarta District Court panel of judges rejected Yaqut’s pre-trial motion. On 12 March 2026, the KPK detained Yaqut at the KPK’s Red-White Building detention facility. On 17 March 2026, the KPK detained Gus Alex at the KPK’s Anti-Corruption Education Centre detention facility. As he walked to the detention vehicle, he stated there were no orders or money transfers in the hajj quota case to Yaqut.