While Being Chased by the KPK, Hasto and Harun Masiku Flee to the Police Complex

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The legal team of the Corruption Eradication Commission revealed the investigation process of the bribery corruption case involving the management of DPR members for the 2019-2024 period during a pretrial hearing at the South Jakarta District Court, Thursday (6/2/2025). Two individuals who are now suspects, Hasto Kristiyanto and Harun Masiku, had both fled to the Police Science College Complex or PTIK.

The trial was presided over by Sole Judge Djuyamto with the KPK as the respondent and Hasto Kristiyanto as the petitioner. The agenda of this session was the reading of the response by the respondent, KPK, to the lawsuit regarding the suspect status of the Secretary General of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Hasto Kristiyanto.

A representative of the KPK legal team, Kharisma Puspita Mandala, stated that during the KPK's sting operation (OTT) on January 8, 2020, Harun Masiku fled to the PTIK Complex in South Jakarta. The same was also done by Hasto Kristiyanto.

"At the time the respondent's officers (KPK) were tailing and about to make an arrest, the respondent's officers were instead secured by several individuals or another team suspected to be sent by the petitioner (Hasto) at PTIK," said Kharisma.

Kharisma stated that at around 8:00 PM WIB, five members of the KPK team were captured by a group of people sent by AKBP Hendy Kurniawan. This ultimately led to the failure of the KPK to arrest Hasto and Harun.

KPK officers were questioned until dawn the next day, at 04:55 WIB. In fact, the officers sent by KPK were subjected to a drug test in an attempt to find faults. However, the results were negative. The KPK officers were only released after being picked up by the Director of Investigation of KPK.

At the time the respondent's officers (KPK) were tailing and about to make an arrest. The respondent's officers were instead secured by several individuals or another team who were allegedly sent by the petitioner (Hasto) at PTIK.

After failing to arrest Harun and Hasto, the KPK team headed to the PDI-P DPP office to seal the room but were blocked by local security officers. Finally, the team returned to the KPK's Red and White Building to expose the OTT case with the KPK leadership and structural law enforcement officials.

During the exposure meeting forum, the KPK team that conducted the OTT had explained the sequence of events in detail, including Hasto's role in the construction of the case. However, the KPK leadership at that time had not agreed to raise Hasto's status from suspect to suspect.

"But the leadership at that time had not yet agreed to raise the applicant's (Hasto) status to a suspect because they were waiting for developments in the results of the investigation," said Kharisma.

In addition, the KPK leadership immediately replaced the Investigation Task Force with another Investigation Task Force. The exposure finally only decided to raise the case to investigation with two investigation warrants (Sprindik) with four suspects.

The suspects who gave the bribes were Harun Masiku and Saeful Bahri, while the recipients of the bribes were KPU Commissioners Wahyu Setiawan and Agustiani Tio Fridelina. Three of them were arrested, but Harun Masiku escaped.

For information, Harun Masiku has been a fugitive from the KPK since January 2020. Meanwhile, Saeful Bahri, Wahyu Setiawan, and Agustiani Tio Fridelina have received their verdicts and are serving their sentences. Hasto's involvement is the result of developing the case with suspect Harun Masiku. Hasto is a suspect in two cases, bribery in the management of DPR members 2019-2024 and obstruction of the investigation of the case.