Yaqut Undergoes Medical Test, To Be Detained Again by KPK Today?

Former Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas underwent a medical test on Monday (23/3) afternoon after being placed under house arrest. “Still undergoing medical examination,” said Yaqut’s lawyer, Dodi Abdul Kadir, when contacted on Monday. He stated that this medical examination is to ensure Yaqut’s condition and whether he can be returned to the KPK Detention Centre. However, Dodi did not specify the location of the hospital where Yaqut is undergoing the examination. “To find out his condition. We await the doctor’s opinion; he should still need treatment,” Dodi explained. He added that Yaqut is undergoing the medical examination today because before being detained on Thursday (19/3), his client had not undergone a comprehensive medical check-up. Yaqut has been a KPK detainee since Thursday (19/3). This information was first revealed by the wife of former Deputy Minister of Manpower Immanuel Ebenezer (Noel), Silvia Rinita Harefa, after visiting Noel during the Eid al-Fitr moment on Saturday (21/3). “This one, earlier I didn’t see Gus Yaqut. The info is he was released on Thursday night,” said Silvia at the KPK Detention Centre on Saturday (21/3). After the testimony from Noel’s wife became widely discussed, the KPK then issued a statement confirming that Yaqut had been placed under house arrest. The KPK acknowledged that the change in detention status was not related to Yaqut’s health condition. “Not because of illness. It was indeed due to a request from the family, which we then processed,” said KPK Spokesperson Budi Prasetyo to reporters on Sunday (22/3).