Indonesia’s KPK Questions Acting Klaten Regent Over Seized Documents

Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned Klaten’s acting regent, Mahanni Yulindha Pratiwi, on 5 November about documents and electronic evidence seized during an investigation involving suspended regent Hamenang Wajar Ismoyo, the commission said on 6 November.

KPK spokesperson Budi Prasetyo told reporters in Jakarta that investigators sought to confirm material recovered in searches, including at the regent’s office. According to ANTARA’s first-hand account, the seized material includes documents and electronic evidence. Investigators also asked Mahanni about the duties and authority of the deputy regent, the position she held before becoming acting regent.

Mahanni was questioned **as a witness**, not identified as a suspect in the reporting reviewed for this article. KPK did not publicly establish that any seized document proved an offence, identify the specific contracts involved in this questioning, or disclose the witness’s answers.

Inquiry reaches earlier administrations

Budi also said investigators were examining whether the alleged receipt of payments under Hamenang could have occurred during earlier Klaten administrations. Detik’s separate report quoted the spokesperson describing this as an open investigative question. It is **not** a finding that any former regent committed misconduct.

This is a material development since TFNOS’s 4 November report, which described KPK’s questioning of two local officials on 3 November about alleged directions to favor particular bidders. The new witness interview concerns evidence seized in searches and the possible historical scope of alleged payment practices, rather than a confirmed new contract award or court ruling.

The wider inquiry began with a 15 October operation. On 16 October, KPK named Hamenang, a senior Central Java Audit Board (BPK) official and a private-sector figure as suspects in an investigation spanning alleged procurement-related payments, permitting, transfers from local agencies and attempts to influence an audit. Those are investigative allegations, not convictions.

The original detention period announced for the three suspects ran through 4 November. The material reviewed here does not establish a subsequent custody extension, release or court decision. Neither the suspected payments nor a connection between specific seized records and a particular procurement award has been judicially established.

The next documentary checks are KPK’s seizure records and case filings, identifiable tender and payment records, any new custody order, the Audit Board’s disciplinary findings, and responses from the suspects’ counsel.