Legislator accused of forging diploma

Legislator accused of forging diploma

PURWOKERTO, Central Java: The Banyumas branch of the Crescent
Star Party (PBB) filed a libel case with local police on Monday
against one of its legislators for forging his university
certificate.

Husen Alkaff, a member of the Banyumas district legislative
body, claimed he held an economics certificate from the Institute
of Indonesian Cooperatives Management (Ikopin) based in Bandung,
West Java. But the Banyumas PBB branch discovered that the
document was fake.

Zainuri Ahmad, chairman of the city's PBB branch, said his
party had been embarrassed by Husen's conduct.

The Ikopin informed the PBB that it had no record of a
graduate named Husen Alkaff in 1991, Zainuri told a press
conference while displaying the notification letter from the
institute.

Zainuri also said his party had recommended that Husen be
removed from the local legislature over the accusation. However,
he promised to reinstate the legislator and rehabilitate his good
name should he manage to prove his innocence. --JP