KPK questions former Hajj director, who remains tight-lipped

Former Director General of Hajj and Umrah Facilitation at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Hilman Latief, remained tight-lipped after a seven-hour interrogation by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. The questioning focused on allegations of corruption in the distribution of hajj quotas for the 2023-2024 period.

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It's still the same actions.

Latief declined to answer media questions about alleged money receipts in the hajj quota case, stating only that the investigation concerned "the same old actions." His lawyer, Muhammad Qabul Nusantara, advised reporters to direct their inquiries to the KPK investigators for official statements.

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Wait for the official statement from the KPK.

The KPK is scrutinizing the distribution of an additional 20,000 hajj quotas. Normally, these quotas are divided with 92% allocated to regular hajj pilgrims and 8% to special hajj pilgrims. However, investigators are probing why the additional quota was split evenly, 10,000 for regular and 10,000 for special hajj. The commission suspects Latief received approximately US$5,000 and 16,000 Saudi riyals from Ismail Adham, the Operations Director of Maktour, a hajj and umrah bureau that allegedly benefited from the quota distribution.

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Investigators are probing the knowledge of the person concerned regarding the distribution of additional hajj quotas, why in the process, out of the 20,000 additional hajj quotas, it was then divided into 50:50 percent.