Probe against Tangerang mayor sought

Probe against Tangerang mayor sought

TANGERANG: Some 150 residents of Bencongan subdistrict, in Curug
district of Tangerang regency staged a rally at the Tangerang
Prosecutors Office on Wednesday, demanding that the investigation
into Mayor Mochamad Thamrin be started soon.

The residents, grouped in the Combined Peoples Action for
Constitution, Corruption Collusion and Nepotism (Garuk) believed
that the mayor had misappropriated land submitted by developer
Gading Serpong Housing for public facilities to the regency
administration when he was still the regency administration
secretary.

Garuk also urged the prosecutors office to investigate an
alleged mark up of the land prices from Rp 50,000 to Rp 100,000
per square meter.

The land submitted by Gading Serpong Housing was allocated for
a public cemetery, but until now there is no such facility in the
complex," Haryadi Nugraha who led the residents said.

According to Nugraha, the housing developer Mulyadi claimed
that he had submitted some money to the regency administration as
compensation for the developer's obligation to provide land for
public facilities.

Prosecutors office chief Himawan Kaskawa met with the
protesting residents and asked them to prepare a written
statement of their complaints.--JP