MAKI Demands 5% Salary Cut for KPK Leadership Following Yaqut's Detention Status Change
Jakarta – The Coordinator of the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI), Boyamin Saiman, has proposed a sanction of salary cuts for the leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in response to the controversy surrounding the change in detention status of former Minister of Religious Affairs (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas.
Boyamin expressed this after providing testimony to the KPK Supervisory Board (Dewas) on Monday, 20 April 2026.
Boyamin is convinced that the KPK leadership will receive a 5 per cent salary cut as a result of the polemic.
“I have submitted a proposal with my conviction for a salary cut sanction, at least 5 per cent, against the KPK leadership. But not for Mr Asep and the spokesperson, because they were actually just following orders,” Boyamin told reporters.
He assessed that there was suspected interference behind the change in Gus Yaqut’s detention status, which the KPK leadership was unable to reject.
“There was also the earlier suspicion of interference. I am convinced there was suspected external interference that the leadership could not reject. And today I conveyed several pieces of the puzzle to the leadership,” he stated.
“There was also the leadership’s mistake in failing to mitigate the negative impacts on society from those meetings, regarding the proposed outcomes,” Boyamin concluded.
Previously reported, the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Society (MAKI) submitted a request to the DPR RI Commission III for the formation of a working committee to investigate the KPK’s transfer of Yaqut Cholil Qoumas to house arrest in the alleged 2024 hajj quota corruption case.
When confirmed in Jakarta on Thursday, MAKI Coordinator Boyamin Saiman said that his organisation’s corrective actions against the KPK would continue, even though the institution had returned Yaqut Cholil to the detention centre.
“In the kids’ terms, it’s not that easy, Ferguso,” Boyamin remarked.
According to him, although Gus Yaqut has been returned to the detention centre, the incident involved a secretive transfer to house arrest and various other deviations, so a DPR working committee is still needed to fully capture the suspected deviations and provide recommendations for improvements.
“The working committee is needed, especially to uncover suspected interference from outside the KPK, as also raised by Prof. Mahfud MD in his social media post,” he said.
He stated that MAKI had sent a letter requesting the formation of the DPR RI Commission III working committee that afternoon.