KPK Reveals Hasto Donated Rp 400 Million to Pass Harun Masiku

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The legal team of the Corruption Eradication Commission or KPK revealed the involvement of the Secretary General of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle or PDI-P, Hasto Kristiyanto, in the case concerning the 2019-2024 DPR member, Harun Masiku. Hasto is suspected of contributing Rp 400 million out of a total of Rp 1.5 billion to bribe the former Commissioner of the General Elections Commission, Wahyu Setiawan.

This was revealed by the legal team of KPK as the respondent in the pretrial hearing of Hasto Kristiyanto's suspect status at the South Jakarta District Court, Thursday (6/2/2025). The hearing was led by Sole Judge Djuyamto with KPK as the respondent and Hasto Kristiyanto as the petitioner.

The agenda of this session is the reading of the response by the respondent, KPK, to Hasto's lawsuit. Meanwhile, the legal team of the PDI-P Secretary General had already presented a series of lawsuits and demands regarding the suspect status on Wednesday (5/2/2025).

According to a representative of the KPK legal team, Iskandar Marwanto, the respondent has the right to develop the bribery case involving the management of DPR members for the 2019-2024 period, even though several suspects have already become defendants and received court verdicts. Moreover, one of the suspects, Harun Masiku, is still at large and remains a fugitive of the KPK.

Hasto's involvement in the bribery case was revealed through the investigation of Harun Masiku. This was concluded from the findings of evidence in the form of witness statements, suspect statements, wiretapping results, documents, electronic data, and interrelated clues.

One of the indications is the source of money used to bribe the involved parties, namely former KPU Commissioner Wahyu Setiawan and former Bawaslu member Agustiani Tio Fridelina. Hasto and Harun Masiku bribed them with the help of PDI-P cadre Saeful Bahri and PDI-P advocate Donny Tri Istiqomah.

Sir, there is an order from Mr. Secretary General to hand over operational funds of Rp 400 million to Mr. Saeful, and the Rp 600 million from Harun, he said.

Hasto, according to the KPK legal team, appointed Donny to conduct a legal review related to Harun Masiku's management so that he could pass to become a member of the DPR for the 2019-2024 period. Meanwhile, Saeful Bahri handled operations, lobbying, and other matters.

In the process, Saeful Bahri asked for help from Agustiani Tio Fridelina as a former Bawaslu member to help lobby the KPU, Wahyu Setiawan. As a result, it was agreed that the operational funds needed were Rp 1.5 billion.

After that, Saeful and Donny met Harun Masiku to discuss. Harun agreed. Likewise, Hasto Kristiyanto who allowed the operational money. In fact, Hasto was willing to cover the shortfall so that Harun's DPR member management could be completed quickly.

On December 16, 2019, at around 16:00 WIB, the staff of the PDI-P Secretary General, Kusnadi, met Donny Tri Istiqomah in the PDI-P DPP meeting room on Jalan Diponegoro, Central Jakarta. Kusnadi also entrusted money wrapped in a brown envelope put in a black backpack.

According to the KPK legal team, Kusnadi said, "Sir, there is an order from the Secretary General to hand over Rp 400 million in operational funds to Mr. Saeful, Rp 600 million of which is from Harun, he said." Next, Donny contacted Saeful via Whatsapp message detailing the Rp 400 million from Hasto Kristiyanto and Rp 600 million from Harun Masiku.

Still on December 16, 2019, Hasto contacted Saeful Bahri and mentioned the nominal amount of Rp 600 million. Hasto asked that Rp 200 million of the Rp 600 million be used for the "greening" DP or exchanged into Singapore dollars first. Saeful agreed.

The next day, December 17, 2019, Saeful contacted Agustiani Tio to hand over the down payment for Harun's passing to Wahyu Setiawan. The money was in the form of 19 1,000 Singapore dollar bills or Rp200 million. Next, the three of them met and discussed how to get Harun Masiku to pass as a member of the DPR. Saeful went home first. Then, Agustiani Tio handed over the down payment from Saeful to Wahyu.

On December 23, 2019, Saeful again received Rp850 million in operational funds from Harun Masiku. Saeful had reported this to Hasto via Whatsapp. Saeful then exchanged some of the money for 39,000 Singapore dollars (Rp400 million) to be given to Wahyu via Agustiani. Meanwhile, Rp100 million was given to Donny and Rp350 million was held by Saeful for operational funds.

On December 26, 2019, Saeful Bahri continued to give money to Wahyu through Agustiani amounting to Rp 400 million but in Singapore dollars. The money was handed over by Saeful's driver to Agustiani to be given to Wahyu.

Long story short, in January 2020, Saeful received a Whatsapp from Hasto regarding the KPU letter. As a result, the replacement of the deceased legislative candidate must be replaced through the PAW mechanism. This means that Harun Masiku still failed to qualify for Senayan.

After that period, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) carried out a sting operation regarding bribery transactions involving DPR members for 2019-2024.

In addition, the KPK also revealed that Hasto and Harun's closeness was not merely formal or professional. The results of Harun's case review found that their relationship was already material so that it could be included in the form of an intention to cooperate.

Harun, said the KPK legal team, was close to the Chief Justice at the time, Hatta Ali. Therefore, Hasto as Secretary General of PDI-P placed Harun as a legislative candidate in the electoral district of South Sumatra I, a potential winning place. In fact, Harun is a native of Toraja but was not nominated there.

Previously, at the pretrial hearing for the determination of Hasto Kristiyanto as a suspect by the KPK at the South Jakarta District Court, Wednesday (5/2/2025), Hasto as the applicant, through his attorney, highlighted the many aspects of arbitrariness carried out by the KPK as an investigator, including non-compliance with the decision of the Constitutional Court or MK.

Although not present in person at the trial led by sole judge Djuyamto, Hasto sent his legal counsel; namely Ronny Talapessy, Todung Mulya Lubis, and Maqdir Ismail. The KPK legal team also appeared to be present after being absent from the first pretrial hearing on Tuesday (21/1/2025).

In turn, Hasto's attorney explained eight inconsistencies behind the determination of the suspect against the PDI-P Secretary General. Ronny Talapessy, said that the determination of Hasto's suspect status was carried out without examining the person concerned. This is considered contrary to Law Number 8 of 1981 concerning Criminal Procedure Law (KUHAP) and Constitutional Court Decision Number 21/PUU-XII/2014.