Defendants want charges dropped

Defendants want charges dropped

JAKARTA: Harun Let Let and Tarcisius Walla, who have been
accused of graft, demanded charges against them be dropped
because the alleged crime took place before the enactment of Law
No. 30/2002 on corruption.

Reading their exceptions separately at the corruption court on
Monday, the two said the law was not retroactive and that the
indictments made by the prosecutors were obscure, incomplete, and
inaccurately drafted.

Let Let and Walla have been accused of involvement in a Rp
10.26 billion (US$1.1 million) corruption case connected to the
development of a port in Uf village in the Pulau Kei district of
Southeast Maluku.

Let Let was head of the finance division at the Directorate
General of Sea Transportation, while Walla was the directorate's
secretary. --Antara

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Immigration officials meet at palace

JAKARTA: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono opened on Monday a
two-day meeting of immigration officials at the State Palace.

The meeting was attended by 240 officials from across the
country and abroad.

Minister of Justice and Human Rights Hamid Awaluddin said that
the participants would discuss standardizing services at the
office in a bid to improve its performance.

The President said that the government considered the office
played an important and strategic and asked the officials to
improve its performance.

He also told them to set up an electronic immigration system
to reduce direct contact between customers and officials in a bid
to prevent possible corruption. -- JP