At a hearing on Wednesday, the Election Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) found Hasyim guilty of an ethical breach for harassing a female overseas poll administrator and recommended that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo formally remove Hasyim from his job no later than seven days after the ruling.

The six-member panel said Hasyim had misused his authority and state resources as the poll body’s chairman to compel the plaintiff, a member of The Hague Overseas Election Committee (PPLN) in the Netherlands identified by her initials CAT, to have sex with him in a hotel in Amsterdam in October of last year.

“[Hasyim] has been proven to have failed to maintain a balance between personal and public interests when mixing personal desires [with official duties] to fulfill his desires,” council member Muhammad Tio Aliansyah said.

Hasyim attended the hearing virtually from the KPU office in Jakarta, while the plaintiff flew from the Netherlands to attend it personally so she could “see how justice is served”, she said after the hearing, as reported by tempo.co.

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Responding to the ruling, Hasyim held a press conference later in the day and said, “We all know how the hearing went and ended up with the decision.”