School final exam trial takes unexpected turn<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The trial on the leakage of national high school
\nfinal examinations (Ebtanas) master copies took an unexpected
\nturn on Monday, when a witness denied claims that her jealousy of
\na colleague had led her to order defendant Dwi Santoso to steal
\nthe copies on March 30, this year.<\/p>\n
\"What Dwi has told (the police) is not true. I never ordered
\nthe defendant to steal Ebtanas copies, for any reason,\" witness
\nYeni Daryani said while Dwi stared at her defiantly at a Central
\nJakarta District Court hearing, presided over by judge M. Daning
\nSunusi.<\/p>\n
The papers were allegedly leaked by the defendant, who had
\nworked for about three years as an office boy at the Directorate
\nGeneral of Elementary and Secondary Education (Dikdasmen), the
\nMinistry of National Education.<\/p>\n
The three-day examination for high school students were held
\nfrom May 22 until May 24.<\/p>\n
Defense lawyer Soejoed told Yeni, a committee member for the
\nEbtanas Project, that the defendant had told police detectives
\nthat Yeni had been \"very jealous\" of witness Sri Yudiani,
\nsubdivision head of systems and procedures at Dikdasmen, because
\nSri had been awarded a position which Yeni had long coveted.<\/p>\n
The defendant, Soejoed said, told the police that Yeni knew
\nthat Sri had been given partial responsibility for taking care of
\nthe conference room on the Dikdasmen building's fifth floor,
\nwhere the master copies of the examination papers were kept in a
\nsafe.<\/p>\n
\"So, Dwi said you decided to tarnish Sri's reputation, and got
\nDwi to steal the master copies,\" Soejoed said, to the vehement
\ndenial of Yeni.<\/p>\n
\"That's just not true!\" Yeni said.<\/p>\n
Asked whether the police had ever questioned her as a suspect
\nin the case, Yeni said: \"Yes, but those dossiers have not been
\nprocessed by the police.\"<\/p>\n
Yeni also said that the only time Dwi had ever visited her
\nhome, was with his girlfriend, on April 2 this year.<\/p>\n
\"That day, a staff member was getting married, and he and his
\ngirlfriend, wanted to hitch a ride to the wedding ceremony,\" Yeni
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Dwi has been accused by prosecutor So'imah of violating
\nArticle 362 of the Criminal Code on stealing and Article 322 of
\nthe same Code on deliberately revealing confidential information
\ngained by virtue of one's employment.<\/p>\n
Article 362 carries a maximum punishment of five years in
\njail, while Article 322 carries a maximum punishment of nine
\nmonths in jail.<\/p>\n
Yeni's testimony was, however, different than the one given by
\nYeni's 18-year-old maidservant, Maemunah.<\/p>\n
Despite showing extreme confusion to questions of the judges
\nand prosecutor So'imah, Maemunah confidently said that Dwi had
\nvisited Yeni's residence on March 30.<\/p>\n
\"I opened the door then... he was with his girlfriend,\" said
\nMaemunah, who is no longer working with Yeni.<\/p>\n
Maemunah added that she did not remember Dwi carrying a
\npurple-colored backpack -- which carried copies of the
\nexamination papers -- during his visit to Yeni's home on March
\n30, and she never actually saw him speaking to Yeni.<\/p>\n
Dwi in turn, said that he had visited Yeni's residence thrice,
\nnamely on March 30, March 31 and April 2.<\/p>\n
Yeni told the hearing that she only found out about the leaks
\nwhen staff members on the fifth floor had been called in for an
\nurgent meeting on May 26 by their boss, Bambang, who informed
\nthem that examination copies from box no. 28 in the conference
\nroom, had gone missing.<\/p>\n
\"He specifically told us not to report this matter to the
\npolice or anybody else. His exact words were, 'Be careful! Don't
\nspeak of this to anybody,\" Yeni told the hearing.<\/p>\n
The story took another unexpected turn, when witness Dwi
\nSuwarno, a staff member in charge of photocopying the examination
\nmaster copies, told the hearing that Bambang had trusted the
\ndefendant to do \"the sorting of the top secret\" photocopied
\npapers.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Yeni said that Bambang had trusted the defendant
\nenough to order him to type out the questions of the examination.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor So'imah said that on March 30, the defendant had
\ntaken the master copies of examination papers in economic
\nstudies, sociology, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology.<\/p>\n
\"He made copies of them, distributed those copies to students
\nof South Jakarta state high schools -- which were then circulated
\nin East and West Jakarta state high schools, private high
\nschools, and West Java state high schools,\" she said. (ylt)<\/p>",
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