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Youth and sports minister steps down over bribery charge
Imam Nahrawi is the second minister in President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's cabinet to be named a suspect in a graft case. He is alleged to have accepted Rp 26.5 billion (US$1.9 million) in bribes.
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Former Youth and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi. (INAPGOC/Mudak Yasin)
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outh and Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi has stepped down from his position after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) named him a suspect in a bribery case involving the National Sports Committee (KONI).
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said that Imam — the second minister in Jokowi’s Cabinet to be named a suspect in a graft case — handed in his resignation letter when the latter visited him on Thursday morning.
“I respect the KPK’s decision to name Pak Imam Nahrawi a suspect in relation to the grant [from the ministry] to KONI,” Jokowi said on Thursday.
The President added that he was currently considering whether to immediately replace Imam or to appoint an acting minister to fill the vacant position.
Imam, a National Awakening Party (PKB) politician, alongside his personal assistant, identified only as MIU, were named suspects in the case by KPK commissioner Alexander Marwata on Wednesday.
The KPK accused Imam of receiving Rp 26.5 billion (US$1.9 million) in bribes from KONI and the head of Satlak Prima (Gold Program), a national sporting program for elite athletes dissolved in 2018.
The case was initially uncovered in December 2018, when KONI allegedly bribed several ministry officials with Rp 3.4 billion to pass state grants to the committee.
