Indonesia arrests officials in corruption crackdown

Indonesia’s deputy minister for immigration affairs, Silmy Karim, has been arrested following a 10-hour interrogation regarding alleged irregularities in immigration document administration from 2023 to 2024. The anticorruption agency KPK confirmed his arrest, and seven other suspects have also been identified in the case. This arrest follows the recent detention of the former head of a government program aimed at combating malnutrition on corruption charges, highlighting a significant crackdown on corruption in the country.

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