Antigraft award winner dies

JAKARTA: Winner of the Hatta Anticorruption Award M. Yamin died on Thursday night in Bali's capital, Denpasar, where he was attending a seminar.

Yamin, who was the head of the education and training center at the Attorney General's Office, was buried at Tanah Kusir cemetery in South Jakarta on Friday.

Born in Palopo, South Sulawesi on Dec. 24, 1944, Yamin pursued his career in the law enforcement institution after he graduated from Hasanuddin University in Makassar in 1980.

Although he received the anticorruption award last year, he was not selected as a member of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). -- Antara