Indonesia’s deputy minister for immigration affairs, Silmy Karim, has been arrested after about 10 hours of questioning.
Printed On 4 Jun 2026
Amid a crackdown on corruption in Indonesia, the deputy minister for immigration affairs has been arrested over alleged irregularities within the administration of immigration paperwork.
Budi Prasetyo, spokesperson for the anticorruption company KPK, confirmed Silmy Karim’s arrest to the Reuters information company on Thursday.
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The alleged corruption occurred from 2023 to 2024, stated Budi, when Karim served as director common for immigration affairs beneath then-President Joko Widodo.
Karim was questioned on the KPK workplace on Wednesday night time, and about 10 hours later, he emerged in handcuffs and an orange jacket on Thursday morning to be transferred to detention.
Budi added that the KPK has additionally recognized seven different suspects within the case. Extra particulars in regards to the case are anticipated to be launched afterward Thursday, he added.
The motion comes a day after the nation’s Legal professional Basic’s Workplace (AGO) arrested Dadan Hindayana, the previous head of an company that oversees President Prabowo Subianto’s free-meals programme to combat malnutrition, on corruption fees. Two extra suspects have been additionally arrested within the case.
In accordance with Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, the AGO’s director of investigation, the free-meals programme is carried out via foundations working in colleges, which investigators allege have been used to facilitate legal actions.
State Secretariat Minister Prasetyo Hadi stated on Thursday, “Actually, now we have been deeply involved over the previous two days by the repeated occasions which we clearly didn’t count on.”
He added that the federal government respects the authorized proceedings by the KPK and the AGO.
Earlier, Indonesia’s chief ombudsman was arrested in April, simply six days after his appointment, on fees of accepting a bribe from a neighborhood nickel firm.
