Nasrul reported to police over slander

Nasrul reported to police over slander

JAKARTA (JP): The executive board of the city's Indonesian
Civil Servants Corps (Korpri) will report a former member to the
police over defamation.

"Today I ordered our legal office to file a report against
Nasrul Idrus with the police," Korpri's deputy chief Zainal
Arifin announced on Wednesday.

He was referring to Nasrul's accusation that Korpri's current
executives had spent Rp 4.3 billion (US$430,000) of funds
received from the city administration since 1997 for "unclear and
factious activities".

Nasrul formerly headed Korpri's social and political
division.

Zainal denied the accusation, saying that Nasrul had filed the
same report twice with the city inspectorate but the latter found
it was baseless.

"Nasrul based his accusation on bitterness as he had lost his
position at Korpri and was moved to the city's civil registration
office, " Zainal said.

Separately, city assistant inspector Syahrul Effendy said that
his office had audited Korpri's account based on Nasrul's report.

"We found irregularities that show Rp 58 million from a total
of Rp 5.4 billion of city funds had been channeled to Korpri's
coffer since 1997," Syahrul said.

He said the irregularities included the marked-up purchase of
stationery and spending for a number of activities which were
unaccounted for.

The money had been returned to the city's cash office though,
according to Syahrul.

"Based on our recommendation, 11 Korpri executives, including
Nasrul, were disciplined," Syahrul said.

According to him, the irregularities have not yet been
reported to the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office, because the
organization hoped to solve the matter internally.

He admitted that before the year 2000 the fund was used to
support activities of the Golkar Party.

Earlier on Wednesday, Nasrul showed data signed by the
organization's secretary, Rengsita A. Pandjaitan, which approved
the disbursement of Rp 100 million for some party functions and
another Rp 49 million for a meeting in Puncak, Bogor, last year.

"I'm ready to testify to the prosecutors if they want to
investigate the case," he remarked.

Rensita denied the accusation, saying that the Rp 100 million
was never spent. Korpri, he said, disbursed only Rp 20 million to
pay for transportation allowances of employees of several
institutions under its auspices.

He admitted the disbursement of Rp 49 million to finance a
meeting to draft the organization's budget for 2001 in Bogor.

"Nasrul was invited but he did not come," Rengsita said. (jun)