Court sets Amelia Yani free

Sun, 28 Aug 2005, 00:00 WIB | Source: JP

YOGYAKARTA: The Sleman District Court acquitted Amelia Yani and
two other defendants of all graft charges on Saturday in Sleman
regency, Yogyakarta province.

Amelia Yani, the daughter of anti-communist general Achmad
Yani, who is also the chairwoman of Tirtayani Utama Cooperative,
obtained Rp 2 billion (US$200,000) from state-run Karya Abadi
Fund (DAKAB) foundation a few years ago and distributed the fund
to salak (snakefruit) and raw silk farmers in Yogyakarta in the
form of cheap loans. As the farmers could not repay the loans,
the foundation took Amelia and the cooperative's secretary and
treasurer Glinding and Sayuti Rustam to court. The court
acquitted them because the three had repaid the money to Dakab
and therefore had not caused losses to the state.

Achmad Yani was among seven generals killed by members of the
now defunct the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), who attempted
to seize power in 1965. Achmad Yani was named a revolution hero
along with the other anti-PKI Army generals killed. -- Antara

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