Councillor charged with polygamy

Councillor charged with polygamy

SURABAYA, East Java: Military prosecutors charged an East Java
deputy councillor from the National Police and the Indonesian
Military (TNI) with forging documents and polygamy.

Col. Masduki, 54, forged his marriage documents to marry 32-
year-old Indah Sulistyowati, said military prosecutor Col.
Salamun during the opening session of the trial on Thursday.

Polygamy is not allowed for military personnel. Salamun said
that Masduki married Indah in 1996, although he was still
married to Linda Yun Aripurawanti and a father of three children.

Masduki met Indah when he taught at a military school in
Bandung, West Java. "His acquaintance with the witness (Indah), a
senior student of his, continued with courting and marriage," the
prosecutor said.

Masduki married Indah under a false name, claiming to be an
entrepreneur whose wife had passed. The illegal marriage went
unnoticed for four years until March 2000 when Linda found out.

When confronted Masduki choose to divorce Indah, with whom he
had two children, aged one and two. -- Antara