Yogyakarta sultan ready to face lawsuit<\/p>\n
Sri Wahyuni, The Jakarta Post, Yogykarta<\/p>\n
Sultan of Yogyakarta Hamengkubuwono X said on Monday he was
\nready to face a lawsuit charging him with illegally obtaining a
\nplot of land and a building on it, arguing he had acted in the
\ninterests of the palace.<\/p>\n
Last week three descendants of Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII filed
\na complaint with the police, charging Sultan Hamengkubuwono X
\nwith illegal appropriation of 40,410 square meters of land and a
\nbuilding on Jl. Laksda Adisucipto.<\/p>\n
"I have no problem if they want to go ahead with the lawsuit;
\nlet the court reveal the true legal status," said Sultan
\nHamengkubuwono X, who is also the governor of Yogyakarta.<\/p>\n
One of Hamengkubuwono VII's heirs who filed the complaint,
\nTriyanto Prasetowo, said last week that the land and the
\nbuilding, Pesanggrahan Ambarrukmo, had belonged to his great
\ngrandfather.<\/p>\n
The other two heirs were identified as Roosharwantoaji and
\nGoewindo. They, however, offered no proof of ownership of the
\nland and building.<\/p>\n
The heirs charged the sultan with deliberately changing the
\nownership of the properties by omitting the Roman numeral after
\nthe name "Hamengkubuwono".<\/p>\n
This move, they said, had transferred ownership of the
\nproperties to the palace as an institution, from the sultan's
\nprivate ownership, which they could claim as his heirs.<\/p>\n
They argued that the properties were the personal belongings
\nof Hamengkubuwono VII. According to them, Pesanggrahan Ambarrukmo
\nwas the sultan's residence in 1921, after having retired from the
\npalace as king. The building is located outside the palace.<\/p>\n
But Sultan Hamengkubuwono X refuted the heirs' argument. He
\nsaid the properties belonged to the palace as an institution and
\nhad to be treated as such.<\/p>\n
"If it's true that they are personal belongings, then the
\nproperties should have been inherited by the heirs (of
\nHamengkubuwono VII) years ago and they would have since enjoyed
\nthis inheritance. But that did not happen."<\/p>\n
"Even while the late Hamengkubuwono IX was in power, no one
\never filed such a complaint," the sultan said.<\/p>\n
He explained that because the palace was not a body with a
\nrecognizable legal basis, its properties were registered under
\nthe name Hamengkubuwono, without the Roman numeral.<\/p>\n
The sultan said that even he, as an individual, had no power
\nto sell the properties, but only to make use of them.<\/p>",
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