Komnas HAM attackers sent to jail

Komnas HAM attackers sent to jail

JAKARTA: The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced six
members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) on Monday to six
months in jail for an attack on the offices of the National
Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) last year.

Presiding Judge Iskandar Tjakke found Endang Saidi and Daniel
Al Haz guilty for instigating the attack, in which a Komnas HAM
staff member and several people representing the Urban Poor
Consortium (UPC), who were filing a complaint with Komnas HAM,
were injured.

In a separate trial of the same case, presiding Judge M.
Daning Sanusi handed down sentences to four other FBR members,
Ahmad Gunarso, Wartono, Yayat Hardian and Dedy Bachtiar, for
causing damage to the Komnas HAM office in Menteng, Central
Jakarta.

All six men were charged with violating Article 170 of the
Criminal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in
prison.

Claiming to be native Jakartans, FBR has repeatedly shown
hostility toward the UPC and its leader Wardah Hafidz, who have
strongly criticized the city administration's discriminatory
policy toward the poor. -- JP

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Mall construction continues

TANGERANG: The construction of Metropolitan mall in Modernland
housing estate on Jl. Sudirman in Cikokol subdistrict continues
although developer PT Modernland Realty has not obtained permits
yet from the Municipal Permit and Capital Investment Office
(KPPM).

Dozens of workers were seen busily working on the construction
site on Monday morning.

The municipal Public Order Office closed the mall site last
Friday due to the developer's failure to produce a building
permit from KPPM.

KPPM chief Dafyar Eliadi said that KPPM would hold a meeting
with Mayor M. Thamrin and all agency chiefs on Thursday to decide
measures to be taken against the developer for violation of bylaw
No. 7/2001 on building permits.

"We know PT Modernland has ignored the bylaw, that is all I
can say," he told the media, adding that if the mall construction
was proven to have violated bylaws, the permit would not be
issued.

Wayan Satia of PT Modern Realty who is responsible for the
project construction could not be reached for comment. He was out
of office, according to Iskak Effendi, a security officer and
Agung, a receptionist at Modernland.--JP