Pemalang Regent Revealed to Have Extorted Subordinates to Fund Case Management at KPK

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) stated that Pemalang Regent Anom Widiyantoro allegedly extorted officials within the Pemalang Regency Government and private parties in the region, collecting Rp1.98 billion to manage the resolution of a case at the anti-graft agency. Anom was arrested by the KPK on Tuesday (28/7/2026).

“In the investigation team’s tracing, the money collected was then used, among other things, for the regent’s personal needs, namely to manage the resolution of a case at the KPK,” said Acting Director of KPK Investigations Achmad Taufik Husein at the KPK’s Red and White Building in Jakarta, Thursday (30/7/2026).

Taufik explained that the case Anom wanted to resolve was related to an ongoing KPK inquiry. “There was a complaint in Pemalang Regency, and it has entered the investigation stage, namely bribery related to projects and positions,” he clarified.

He explained that Anom initially asked his confidant, Mohamad Haris alias Gus Haris, to meet his brother-in-law with the initials HAN. Anom requested Gus Haris to meet HAN in order to be introduced to the father of a police officer named Setya Budi Dias, who was serving at the KPK as an administrative staff member, namely Lilik Budi Suprianto.

Subsequently, Taufik said, Anom and Gus Haris met with Lilik up to three times at restaurants in the Magelang and Semarang areas of Central Java. During one of these meetings, Lilik requested a fee of Rp2 billion to manage the resolution of the case.

“After AWI (Anom) and GHA (Gus Haris) were convinced that LBS (Lilik) could manage the case in question, an agreement was reached between AWI and GHA and LBS,” he stated.