According to a report received by the AGO’s junior attorney general for special crimes (Jampidsus), the prosecutor, identified as Pinangki Sirna Malasari, had allegedly met Djoko several times abroad before the fugitive was finally arrested and brought back to Jakarta late last month.

"We are currently still looking into the result of the preliminary probe. We have yet to start [investigation] since the dossier was just submitted [on Monday] to the prosecutors in the special crimes unit," said Febrie Adriansyah, the director of investigations at the AGO's junior attorney general for special crimes' office, on Tuesday.

"We will decide later whether this case will be followed up by an investigation or not," he added as quoted by kompas.com.

The issue involving Pinangki came up after a photo circulating on social media showed her together with Djoko and his lawyer Anita Kolopaking in a meeting that allegedly took place in Malaysia.

After investigating some witnesses, the AGO’s supervisory unit declared that Pinangki had committed an ethics violation, as she was found to have taken nine international trips to Singapore and Malaysia in 2019 without permits. She was suspected to have met with Djoko during the several trips that she had taken.

While the exact motive of Pinangki's meeting with Djoko is still unclear, Deputy Attorney General Setia Untung Arimuladi decided to remove Pinangki from her post as an official in the planning bureau under the AGO's junior attorney general for development on July 29.

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