Despite plea, still no wealth reports from councillors<\/p>\n
Ahmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
City Councillors were still unwilling to submit their wealth
\nreports to the Public Servants' Wealth Auditing Commission
\n(KPKPN), despite President Megawati Soekarnoputri's call for them
\nto do so.<\/p>\n
The Council's Faction Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic
\nParty of Struggle (PDIP), Agung Imam Soemanto, said here on
\nWednesday that he could not yet decide on the matter as his
\nfaction first had to consult with the executive board of the
\nparty's city chapter.<\/p>\n
"Since we are under the party's city chapter, we should
\ndiscuss it with them. Probably we would decide it on Oct. 5 after
\nthe party had completed its national meeting here," Agung told
\nreporters.<\/p>\n
He claimed that he personally had no problem in submitting his
\nwealth report, but said it was agreed that they should submit the
\nreports together.<\/p>\n
He said he regretted the wealth auditing commission's
\ninconsistency in planning earlier to set up its city chapter
\n(KPKPD) before asking the councillors to provide their wealth
\nreports.<\/p>\n
"However since it has been decided by the party's central
\nboard, we could not reject it. But we would consult first with
\nthe party's city chapter," Agung reiterated.<\/p>\n
Megawati, who is also the party's chairwoman, on Tuesday
\nordered the party's councillors to submit their wealth reports to
\nKPKPN.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the party's national meeting here, she even
\ndescribed the councillors as "arrogant and irresponsible" for
\nrefusing to submit their wealth reports.<\/p>\n
City council deputy chairman Djafar Badjeber said the
\ncouncillors were still reluctant to submit their wealth reports
\nsince the regulation stipulated that councillors were not
\nidentified as state officials.<\/p>\n
"There is still a problem with the different perceptions of
\nthe regulation," Djafar who is also chairman of the United
\nDevelopment Party's city chapter, said.<\/p>\n
He claimed that he had completed his wealth report, but
\ninsisted that it would not be submitted before the regulation had
\nbeen reviewed.<\/p>\n
Djafar earlier said he would not submit his wealth report even
\nif the KPKPN ordered police to arrest him or the prosecutor's
\noffice to investigate him.<\/p>\n
However, not all 85 city councillors refused to submit their
\nwealth reports; at least 13 councillors of the National Mandate
\nParty (PAN) had decided to hand over their reports.<\/p>\n
Unlike other factions, it quickly made the decision after the
\nparty's deputy chairman A.M. Fatwa ordered them to submit reports
\nlast week.<\/p>\n
Activists believed that the councillors' rejection was due to
\nthe fact that their wealth had sharply increased over the last
\ntwo years compared to their wealth before they took office.<\/p>",
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