KPK: Total assets seized in hajj quota corruption case exceed Rp100 billion
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has disclosed the total value of assets seized in the 2023-2024 hajj quota corruption case involving former Religious Affairs Minister Yaqut Cholil Qoumas. The KPK stated that assets worth over Rp100 billion have been confiscated in this matter.
“In this case, the KPK has also conducted asset seizures reaching a value of over Rp100 billion,” said Asep Guntur Rahayu, Deputy for Enforcement and Execution at the KPK, during a press conference at KPK headquarters in South Jakarta on Thursday, 12 March 2026.
Asep noted that the seizure includes foreign currency in USD and Saudi Riyals as well as Rupiah cash. The total also encompasses seizures of vehicles and land.
“Comprising cash totalling USD 3.7 million, Rp22 billion and SAR 16,000, as well as 4 vehicles, and 5 plots of land and buildings,” Asep stated.
Yaqut received fees from the hajj quota corruption case, according to the KPK’s findings. The commission stated that Yaqut received fees following his approval of a proposal for additional hajj quota distribution in 2023.
Asep explained that Yaqut received fees for the hajj pilgrimage departures in 2023 and 2024. These fees were received by Yaqut because he agreed to the distribution and acceleration of special hajj departures without requiring the standard queue system.
Asep clarified that during the 2023 hajj period, the acceleration fee from the hajj organiser (PIHK) for fulfilling additional special hajj quota allocation amounted to USD 5,000 or approximately Rp84.4 million per pilgrim. One method involved converting pilgrims with mujamalah visas to special hajj status.
“Based on the KPK investigation team’s findings, the hajj organiser (RFA) also provided this acceleration fee to Yaqut, another official (IAA), and several officials at the Religious Affairs Ministry,” Asep said.
For the 2024 period, the agreed fee value was USD 2,000 or approximately Rp33.8 million per pilgrim. The distribution and collection of these fees occurred between February and June 2024.
The audit body BPK has completed its calculation of state financial losses in the 2024 hajj quota case. The KPK disclosed that state losses in this matter amount to Rp622 billion.
“Essentially, in this corruption case, state losses totalling Rp622,090,207,166 have occurred, thus clearly establishing that the corruption case related to hajj quota constitutes a corruption case that meets the criteria of Article 11 paragraph 1 letter d of the KPK Law, namely involving state losses of at least Rp1 billion,” stated the KPK Legal Bureau team at South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday, 4 March.