Ex-official on trial for alleged corruption

TANGERANG: The Tangerang District Court began the trial on Wednesday of the former Tangerang municipal administration assistant head of development for the alleged misappropriation of Rp 6 billion.

Prosecutor Siti Zahara said the defendant, Agus Burhanudin, 48, who had been missing for a year before he was arrested in July, had embezzled the money between 1995 and 1998.

The money was deposited by 28 real estate developers as compensation for their failure to develop public facilities in the housing complexes they had built.

According to the regulations, every developer is required to hand over two percent of the land to be developed for the construction of public facilities. --JP