Dicky's special privilege suspended
Dicky's special privilege suspended
JAKARTA (JP): The Cipinang penitentiary has officially
suspended special privileges granted to former banker Dicky
Iskandar Di Nata following an allegation of sexual harassment
against a woman he worked under a reassimilation program.
The head of the Cipinang penitentiary, Mintardjo said on
Tuesday that he had reported the suspension of Dicky's privileges
to Minister of Justice Oetojo Oesman.
"The reassimilation program could be permanently revoked and
Dicky could be charged with a criminal offense if he is found
guilty in the sexual harassment case," Mintardjo said.
Dicky has served almost five years of an eight-year jail term
for abusing his power as vice president of Bank Duta and
manipulating the bank's funds.
He had been allowed to leave the prison between 6 a.m. and 6
p.m. under the reassimilation program before reports of sexual
harassment were made public about two weeks ago.
Mintardjo said Dicky will get a sentence reduction of five
months on Aug. 17 this year and might be a free man on July 7,
1997, if he does not transgress again.
On Jan. 29, a staffer at a securities company, Titi Wulandari
Prihatini, 27, filed a lawsuit against Dicky saying that the
former vice president of Bank Duta has sexually assaulted her
three times.
Titi's lawyer, Ruhut Sitompul, said that the first incident
took place at the Equatorial Hotel in Central Jakarta late in the
evening of Nov. 13, when Dicky allegedly gave the woman an
unidentified pill to make her unconscious.
Sitompul said she was saved by a telephone ringing, which woke
her, and managed to kick Dicky, put her clothes on and run out of
the hotel room.
About a month later Dicky visited her at her office, PT Mesan
Investama Utama in the Setiabudhi Building I on Jl. Rasuna Said,
the lawyer said. "Dicky tried to hug and kiss her," Ruhut said.
On Jan. 11, Dicky met Titi at the same office and again
attempted to kiss her.
Sitompul also questioned why the police permitted Dicky to
violate his special privilege of leaving the Cipinang
penitentiary between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
"My client told me that most of the incidents took place after
6 p.m.," he said.
Dudung Nurhadi, a guard on duty on Jan. 11, has been
questioned about Dicky's whereabouts that evening.
Dicky, through his lawyer Henry Yosodiningrat, has denied the
allegations, saying the woman fabricated the story for the police
and the press.
Dicky also filed a lawsuit against Titi with the City Police
on Feb. 1.
Mintardjo said that the Inspectorate General of the Ministry
of Justice and the City Police had investigated the allegation.
"But, we have received no reports of their findings yet."
He said that his office is also probing the case. (imn)