Bambang, Fauzan contest YLBHI post

Bambang, Fauzan contest YLBHI post

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) chairman
Bambang Widjojanto will contest the next chairmanship with his
secretary, Achmad Fauzan, the foundation said in a statement.

The statement said an election committee established by the
foundation's board of trustees nominated seven candidates but
five of them rejected their nominations.

The 1996/1997 period of the YLBHI executive board ends Sept.
30, after being extended for almost two months. The period should
have ended Aug. 5.

The other five candidates were director of the Legal Aid
Institute-Indonesian Women Association for Justice Nursjahbani
Katjasungkana, former director of the Surabaya Legal Aid
Institute Muchammad Zaidun, former director of the Jakarta Legal
Aid Institute Luhut M.P. Pangaribuan, YLBHI's board of trustees
member Toety Heraty Noerhadi and director of the Bandung Legal
Aid Institute Haneda Sri Lastoto.

The election committee is interviewing the two candidates on
their agendas for the foundation's strategies and programs for
the next four years, the statement said.

Bambang had earlier said he would reject chairmanship
nomination because of family commitments.

Before he was elected chairman in March last year, Bambang
chaired the Jayapura Legal Aid Institute in Irian Jaya.

Fauzan was director of the YLBHI's Manado chapter in North
Sulawesi, before becoming the foundation's secretary. (05)