'Tempo' reports mayor over false info<\/p>\n
Chief editor of Tempo Bambang Harymurti gave on Friday a
\nstatement to Jakarta Police investigators in connection with an
\nearlier report on Central Jakarta Mayor Hosea Petra Lumbun, whom
\nhe accused of giving false information in a libel case against
\nthe weekly.<\/p>\n
\"We reported Hosea Petra Lumbun two weeks ago for giving out
\nfalse information to police investigating the libel suit filed by
\nbusinessman Tomy Winata against Tempo,\" Bambang's lawyer Darwin
\nAritonang said.<\/p>\n
Darwin said the libel case file showed Lumbun told the police
\nhe had never been interviewed by Tempo reporters for the March
\n2003 Is Tomy in Tenabang?, the article over which Tomy had sued
\nthe magazine.<\/p>\n
\"The fact is, reporter Juli Hantoro interviewed (the mayor) on
\nFeb. 19, 2003, while Indra Dermawan interviewed him by phone on
\nFeb. 28, 2003, for the article,\" he said.<\/p>\n
The prosecution used Lumbun's statement as the key
\nincriminating evidence in seeking a two-year prison sentence for
\nBambang, who was tried along with two other Tempo journalists for
\nallegedly defaming Tomy in the disputed article.-- JP<\/p>",
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