Police in hot water over T-shirts

YOGYAKARTA: Yogyakarta municipal police chief Sr. Comr. Chondro Kirono confessed on Tuesday that his office had become a transit point for thousands of campaign T-shirts emblazoned with images of Megawati Soekarnoputri and Hasyim Muzadi.

In a media conference, the police officer said that the T- shirts, which lay in a corner of his office, belonged to his step-brother, Xena Riyakudu Arifat, who was due to distribute the T-shirts to Megawati supporters in Bantul regency.

The incident, which was brought to light by the Yogyakarta Election Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu), came only two weeks after Banjarnegara police precinct held a gathering that supported the presidential candidacy of Megawati Soekarnoputri. -- JP