Supervisory board member Albertina Ho said that all KPK commissioners had answered the summons.

“We questioned all [leaders] from morning to evening,” she said, without providing further details, on Wednesday afternoon.

Nawawi Pomolango, Nurul Ghufron and Alexander Marwata, were seen entering the Anti-Corruption Learning Center building through the front door, while Firli Bahuri and Johanis Tanak were not seen entering the building.

Nurul told reporters that he would comply with the supervisory body on the ethics probe into Endar’s dismissal.

On Monday, the supervisory board summoned Endar and secretary-general Cahya Harefa for clarification over the dismissal dispute.

Last week, Endar reported Firli and Cahya to the supervisory board for allegedly committing an ethics violation over his dismissal. The one-star police general was appointed to the position at the KPK by National Police chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo.

While the KPK insists that Endar’s dismissal is in line with his contract, which ended on March 31, Listya maintains he had extended Endar’s tenure at the KPK before the deadline.

Endar said that he not only filed a complaint about his dismissal, he also reported Firli to the supervisory board for allegedly leaking official documents to the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, an institution that is currently under KPK investigation.

Earlier this month, the KPK said it had identified 10 suspects in an alleged graft case involving energy ministry employee performance allowances for the 2020-2022 fiscal year.

Endar also accused Firli of violating the criminal procedural law by forcing him to approve raising the status of a specific case to the investigation stage, but he declined to identify the case.

“I hope that the KPK supervisory body can proceed with my three reports so the truth can unfold,” he said.

Syamsudin Haris, another supervisory board member, said that Wednesday's summons focused on Endar’s dismissal and it was set to file another summons for KPK leaders to clarify other issues.

Recently, a video suggesting that documents from the KPK had been found during the antigraft commission’s investigation into the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has circulated on social media. In the video, two men are heard discussing the documents, with one saying that the “minister obtained the documents from Pak Firli”.

KPK spokesperson Ali Fikri declined to comment on the authenticity of the video, but he claimed the KPK supervisory board would be able to resolve the issue.

Previously, Firli had been investigated by the supervisory body on other ethics violation allegations.

In 2020, the supervisory board questioned Firli about a helicopter ride following a complaint filed by antigraft activists. The board’s panel declared Firli guilty of an ethics violation for displaying a “hedonistic lifestyle” but only handed down a light sentence in the form of a written reprimand for his first ethics violation.

In 2018, an internal KPK investigation concluded that Firli had committed gross ethical violations for meeting with then-West Nusa Tenggara governor Zainul Majdi, who at the time was a witness in a corruption case.

Given the controversies surrounding Firli, many critics have demanded his removal as KPK chief.

On Tuesday, protesters from a group called the Indonesian Youth Activist Community (KAMI) demonstrated against Firli in front of the KPK headquarters in Kuningan, South Jakarta. They released several mice during the protest, an animal that has become symbolic of corruption in the country.

On Monday, former KPK commissioners and advisors, graft watchdog Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and other civil groups held a similar protest in front of the building after reporting Firli to the KPK supervisory board.

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