Graft suspect to be rainstalled Regent
Graft suspect to be rainstalled Regent
BOGOR: Agus Utara Effendi is scheduled to be installed on
Monday for a second term although West Java Police have named him
a suspect in a bribery case involving Rp 1.2 billion
(US$141,176.47).
Bogor Regency Council chairman of Commission C on finance,
Rachmat Yasin, said that Agus' legal status would not halt his
installment.
"We must make a distinction between his political affairs and
his legal affairs because he has not yet been convicted in the
bribery case. It is for the court to decide whether or not he is
really guilty," he said over the weekend.
Council secretary Dase Rochmana said that the letter that
officially endorses Agus as regent and Albert Pribadi as deputy
regent was already signed by home minister Hari Sabarno.
However, six non-governmental organizations rejected his
appointment, saying that an official at the home ministry had
said that there was no such letter issued by the ministry.
Agus is suspected of bribing Bogor councillors to accept his
2001 accountability report. -- JP
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Greater-Bekasi-robbery
Father robbed, daughter raped
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Father robbed, daughter raped
BEKASI: Sumarna, 39, a resident of Cibuntu, Bekasi, suffered
two bitter experiences on Sunday morning after his house was
robbed and his 11-year-old daughter was raped.
His daughter was alone at her room, while the rest of the
family were in deep sleep, when a robber broke into the house
through the ceiling.
The robber threatened the girl with a machete, took away
jewelry, a cell phone and Rp 5.5 million (US$647) in cash. He
dragged the girl out of the house and raped her before fleeing
the scene.
Sumarna was shocked when he found out what had happened to his
daughter and reported the incident to the Cibitung Police.
An officer of the subprecinct said police were still tracking
down the suspected robber. -- JP
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Greater-fire
Fire razes seven houses
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Fire razes seven houses
JAKARTA: Fire razed seven houses in Papanggo subdistrict,
Warakas district, East Jakarta, on Sunday. The fire was thought
to have been caused by a kerosene stove in one of the houses.
A firefighter with the North Jakarta Fire Department, Zainuri,
said that the fire started at 10:25 a.m. in the densely populated
neighborhood near Tanjung Priok seaport. Ten fire trucks were
sent to the location.
"The fire was eventually extinguished at 11:50 a.m.," he told
The Jakarta Post.
Most big fires in the capital are caused by seemingly minor
incidents such as a short circuit and kerosene stoves that get
knocked over or blow up. Fires get bigger and are difficult to
extinguish immediately because poor access and overcrowding
hampers firefighters in reaching the location. -- JP