“I am disappointed because it was done quietly,” Boyamin said in a statement in Jakarta on Sunday (March 22, 2026).
He argued that the decision undermines the legal system and could lead to discrimination, potentially prompting similar requests from other detainees.
Boyamin also called on the KPK Supervisory Board to investigate a suspected breach of the code of ethics behind the decision to grant house arrest status to Yaqut, following the agency’s approval of the family’s request.
“The KPK Supervisory Board must investigate the alleged ethical violation,” he said.
He further urged the commission, led by Setyo Budiyanto, to return Yaqut to a detention facility.
“The KPK must re-detain him,” Boyamin asserted.
News of Yaqut’s release from detention first surfaced through a statement by Silvia Rinita Harefa, the wife of former deputy manpower minister Immanuel Ebenezer Gerungan, also known as Noel, during a visit to her husband on Saturday (March 21, 2026).
“I didn’t see Gus Yaqut earlier. The information I received said he was released on Thursday night (March 19),” Silvia told reporters separately.
She added that, based on information she received, Yaqut was also absent from the Eid al-Fitr prayer.
“According to people inside, he wasn’t there,” she said. (aro)
