Defendants admit to plagiarism role<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The businessman being tried for plagiarizing a
\nhydraulic analysis admitted in court yesterday that his office
\nspent Rp 800 million to get the falsified analysis report.<\/p>\n
Aswin Osantara, director of PT Kharisma Wira Perkasa, told the
\nCentral Jakarta District Court that money was spent to copy the
\noriginal hydraulic analysis for their coastline reclamation
\nproject and to pay the consultants to legalize the (copied)
\nanalysis.<\/p>\n
The consultants, Ahmadi Sulaeman, Bambang Widiarno and Zaenal
\nAmin, who live in South Jakarta, are also being tried for their
\nroles separately at the South Jakarta District Court.<\/p>\n
Aswin was tried together with his assistants, Hadi Rianto and
\nSigit Siswanto, who is North Jakarta city planning employee.
\nAswin's company is located in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Aswin told the court yesterday that Sigit took the original
\nhydraulic analysis from the city office upon his orders.<\/p>\n
The original hydraulic analysis was made by PT Sac Nusantara,
\nwho submitted it to the city administration as part of its
\nreclamation proposal for the North Jakarta coastline.<\/p>\n
Aswin said it was Achdiat Fakih and Ade Abednego, his
\nemployees, who copied the original hydraulic analysis stolen by
\nSigit for him. Achdiat and Ade are being tried in a separate
\ncourt on similar charges.<\/p>\n
PT Kharisma Wira Perkasa then included the copied hydraulic
\nanalysis in its project proposal to reclaim the same northern
\ncoastline of Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The second defendant, Hadi Rianto, said that he signed a
\nletter sent by PT Kharisma Wira Perkasa to the Bandung-based
\nCenter of Water Research and Development. The letter was brought
\nby Achdiat to the Center to have the hydraulic analysis
\nlegalized.<\/p>\n
"I signed the letter upon Aswin's orders," Hadi said.<\/p>\n
He also said that he gave Rp 6 million to Achdiat to arrange
\nthe legalization.<\/p>\n
Sigit Siswanto admitted to stealing the hydraulic analysis
\nfrom the city office's files. He and Aswin went to the city
\noffice to submit the project proposal with the copied hydraulic
\nanalysis, which was also ordered by Aswin.<\/p>\n
But Aswin denied being the mastermind, saying, "I asked Ade
\nand Achdiyat to obtain the hydraulic analysis legally, but they
\ngave the fake one." The prosecutor said that Aswin asked Sigit to
\nsteal the hydraulic analysis and asked Ade and Achdiyat to copy
\nit for him.<\/p>\n
The trial was adjourned until Thursday. (29)<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/defendants-admit-to-plagiarism-role-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }