Bukit Sentul case goes to court

BOGOR: A prosecutor is seeking a six-month prison term for the chairman of the Association of Owners and Tenants of Bukit Sentul Housing Estate, who had protested the increase in garbage collection fees imposed by the housing management.

Prosecutor Djamil Zaini told the Cibinong District Court that defendant Kunarso Suryoputra demonstrated "antisocial behavior" by seizing a confidential document.

The incident took place on Sept. 24, 2002 after the defendant asked garbage collector Muhayat bin Akma from PT Sukaputra Graha Cemerlang why the garbage had not been collected from his house. Muhayat said that he had been told not to collect the garbage from the houses whose owners had not paid the garbage collection fee.

Kunarso then snatched from Muhayat's hand, a list of residents who had not paid the fee, as he wanted to make a copy of it.

A resident of the housing estate wrote a letter to The Jakarta Post in October 2002, to complain about the Bukit Sentul management because they increased the garbage collection fee by 350 percent. --JP