Pekalongan Regent Creates 'Mother Company' With Husband and Child

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has disclosed that Pekalongan Regent Fadia Arafiq, together with her husband Mukhtaruddin Ashraff Abu — who is also a member of Pekalongan’s DPRD for the 2024-2029 period — and their son Muhammad Sabiq Ashraff, set up a company named PT Raja Nusantara Berjaya (RNB) one year after she was inaugurated as Regent. Ashraff serves as a commissioner of PT RNB, while Sabiq was the director for the 2022-2024 period. After one year of operation, during 2023-2026, Fadia, through her son Sabiq and a trusted associate, is alleged to have intervened with heads of departments to ensure RNB would win outsourcing service procurements in several regional offices, districts and the Regional General Hospital (RSUD) in Pekalongan Regency. ‘Even though other companies submitted lower bids, regional apparatus were required to award to the ’Mother Company’,’ said Asep Guntur Rahayu, Deputy for Enforcement and Execution at the KPK. Throughout 2025, PT Raja Nusantara Berjaya is said to have dominated procurement of goods and services at the Pekalongan Regency government, handling outsourcing service contracts across 17 regional agencies, 3 RSUDs and 1 district. During questioning, the Regent’s Secretary and several others warned of potential conflicts of interest in the procurement, but the warning was reportedly ignored by the Regent and her family. Fadia has been officially named as the sole suspect in the alleged corruption cases involving outsourcing services procurement and other procurements within the Pekalongan Regency Government for the 2023-2026 Budget Year. The case was uncovered by a KPK Operation Tangkap Tangan (OTT) conducted in the early hours of Tuesday (3/3) in Semarang, Central Java.