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Widespread Extortion in the Foreign Worker Permit Process

Monday, June 16, 2025

The Corruption Eradication Commission named eight officials of the Manpower Ministry as suspects in an extortion scheme involving foreign workers. A minister’s special advisor was also questioned. 

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KPK officers inspect vehicles confiscated in connection with an extortion and gratification case involving foreign workers at the Ministry of Manpower between 2020 and 2023, at the KPK headquarters in Jakarta, May 26, 2025. Tempo/Tony Hartawan. tempo : 176905638625.

ONE by one, five employees of the Ministry of Manpower arrived at the meeting room at the ministry’s Inspectorate-General office on Jalan Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. There, they were met by more than a dozen investigators from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), who had just completed a search of several rooms in the Directorate-General for Manpower Placement and Expansion of Employment Opportunitie

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Riky Ferdianto

Fajar Pebrianto, Lani Diana, M. Rizki Yusrizal, and M. Raihan Muzzaki contributed to the writing of this article. 

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