Only six ministers have submitted wealth reports<\/p>\n
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Only six of the 34 United Indonesia Cabinet members have
\nsubmitted wealth reports to the Corruption Eradication Commission
\n(KPK) as of Monday afternoon, three days after the deadline set
\nby President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.<\/p>\n
The wealth reports of Coordinating Minister for Economic
\nAffairs Aburizal Bakrie and Minister of Manpower and
\nTransmigration Fahmi Idris reached the anticorruption body on
\nFriday evening. On Monday, Minister of Public Works Djoko
\nKirmanto and Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin
\nwent to the commission office to hand in their wealth reports.<\/p>\n
KPK deputy chairman Sjahruddin Rasul said the commission also
\nreceived on Monday the wealth report of State Minister of Women's
\nEmpowerment Meutia Hatta and State Minister of Cooperatives and
\nSmall and Medium Enterprises Suryadharma Ali.<\/p>\n
Cabinet ministers have until Nov. 21 to declare their wealth
\nin accordance with the law, but Susilo, who declared the fight
\nagainst corruption as one of his top priorities, set an Oct. 29
\ndeadline for the submission of the reports.<\/p>\n
Sjahruddin said his office was currently examining the wealth
\nreports of the five ministers.<\/p>\n
\"We hope we will finish by next week,\" he said, adding that
\nthe commission would publicly announce the amount of assets held
\nby each minister.<\/p>\n
The commission will only investigate those reports of state
\nofficials that irregularities.<\/p>\n
Asked why he failed to meet the president's deadline, Djoko
\nsaid he found it difficult complete, particularly the item on
\nproviding property title.<\/p>\n
\"It's not an easy job. I must find all the certificates for
\nthe properties that I've bought, some of them many years ago, to
\ncomplete the forms,\" he told reporters, while refusing to answer
\nquestions about his wealth.<\/p>\n
Hamid, who went to the KPK office 30 minutes after Djoko, said
\nhe encountered similar difficulties.<\/p>\n
Unlike Djoko, Hamid had no hesitation about revealing his
\nassets, when asked. He said he had a house in Palem Indah housing
\ncomplex in East Jakarta and another one in the housing complex
\nfor the University of Hasanuddin lecturers in Makassar.<\/p>\n
He also said he owned a second-hand Toyota Altis, which he
\nbought from a friend for some Rp 180 million (US$19,780), and a
\nToyota Kijang van that his wife was driving. He also had US$3,000
\nin a bank account at Citibank and \"less than Rp 100 million\" in
\nan account at state bank BNI.<\/p>\n
Hamid acknowledged he did not know the exact amount of his
\nwealth as he could not estimate the prices of his home
\nappliances, such as the television and refrigerator.<\/p>\n
Also on Monday, the General Elections Commission (KPU)
\nsubmitted around 12,000 wealth reports belonging to legislators
\nfrom all over the country, which were given to the KPU before
\nthey were declared eligible to run in the April legislative
\nelection.<\/p>\n
The KPK will not publicly announce the wealth reports of the
\nlegislative members, as they are not authorized to do so. The
\npublic, however, can get access to the reports from the state
\ndocument agency.<\/p>",
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