The Extortion Methods of Pemalang Regent Anom Widiyantoro
President Prabowo has counselled young civil servants not to engage in corruption.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has stated that Pemalang Regent Anom Widiyantoro is suspected of extorting officials of the Pemalang Regency Government as well as private parties in the region, collecting Rp1.98 billion to arrange the settlement of a case at the anti-graft agency.
“In the KPK team’s investigation, the money collected was then used, among other things, for the Regent’s personal needs, namely to arrange the settlement of a case at the KPK,” said Acting Director of Investigation at the KPK, Achmad Taufik Husein, at the KPK’s Red and White Building in Jakarta on Thursday (30 July).
Taufik explained that the case Anom wanted to settle related to an inquiry the KPK was conducting. “There is a complaint in Pemalang Regency, and it has entered the inquiry stage, concerning bribery over projects and positions,” he explained.
He explained that Anom initially asked a confidant named Mohamad Haris, alias Gus Haris, to meet his brother-in-law, identified by the initials HAN. Anom asked Gus Haris to meet HAN so that he could be introduced to the father of a police officer named Setya Budi Dias, who was serving at the KPK as an administrative staff member — Lilik Budi Suprianto.
Taufik said Anom and Gus Haris then met Lilik up to three times at restaurants in the Magelang and Semarang areas of Central Java. At one of these meetings, Lilik demanded Rp2 billion to arrange the settlement of the case.
“After AWI (Anom) and GHA (Gus Haris) were convinced that LBS (Lilik) could arrange the settlement of the case, an agreement was reached between AWI and GHA on one side and LBS on the other,” he said.
Subsequently, on 27–28 July 2026, Anom ordered Gus Haris to collect money from officials of the Pemalang Regency Government and private parties. Meanwhile, on 27 July 2026, the KPK suspects a meeting took place between Anom, Gus Haris and Lilik at a hotel in Semarang. At that meeting, Taufik said, the KPK suspects Rp1.2 billion of the total Rp2 billion was handed over to arrange the case settlement.
“After the money was handed over, LBS returned to his home in the Purworejo area. The KPK team then secured LBS at his home, and Rp1.2 billion in cash was successfully seized,” he said.
Meanwhile, Anom was arrested by the KPK at a hotel in Jakarta, whilst Gus Haris was arrested in Pemalang on the same day, 28 July 2026. Previously, on 28 July 2026, the KPK carried out its 18th hand-catch operation (OTT) of 2026. One of the 21 people arrested in that operation was Pemalang Regent Anom Widiyantoro.
The KPK then brought 14 of the 21 individuals to Jakarta for further questioning. They comprised five people arrested in Jakarta, eight from Pemalang and one from Purworejo.
On 30 July 2026, Anom Widiyantoro and three others appeared before the public wearing the KPK’s orange vests after being named suspects. Meanwhile, there are two clusters in the case: first, the alleged extortion by Anom Widiyantoro of officials of the Pemalang Regency Government and private parties.
Second, the alleged extortion of Anom Widiyantoro by a police officer serving at the KPK and his father. In the first cluster, the suspects are Anom Widiyantoro and Gus Haris. In the second cluster, the suspects are Setya Budi Dias, the police officer serving at the KPK, and his father, Lilik Budi Suprianto.