Running mate Soetadi richest in Depok election
Running mate Soetadi richest in Depok election
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The Depok General Elections Commission (KPUD) announced Thursday
the wealth of 10 mayoral and deputy mayoral candidates contesting
in the June 27 elections, and determined Soetadi Dipowongso as
the richest among them.
According to documents already verified by the Corruption
Eradication Agency (KPK), the wealth of Soetadi, a PDI-P deputy
treasurer and former official of the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK),
stands at Rp 5.69 billion (US$592,400).
Three political parties -- the Indonesian Democratic Party
of Struggle (PDIP), the United Development Party (PPP) and the
Prosperous Peace Party (PDS) -- have nominated Soetadi as deputy
mayoral candidate, with Yus Ruswandi being the mayoral candidate.
Yus has personal wealth of Rp 1.74 billion, the fifth richest
among the ten candidates.
Another mayoral candidate, Badrul Kamal, who was nominated by
Golkar, came in second with personal declared wealth of Rp 3.6
billion.
The 1999-2005 Depok mayor will contest the first direct
mayoral election with running mate Syihabuddin Ahmad of the
National Awakening Party (PKB).
The third richest is mayoral candidate Harun Heryana, a former
bureaucrat, with Rp 2.4 billion. Nominated by several political
parties including the National Mandate Party (PAN), the Crescent
Star Party (PBB) and the Star Reform Party (PBR), Harun will be
accompanied by running mate Farkhan Abdul Rozak, chairman of
Muhammadiyah's Depok chapter.
With Rp 1.94 billion, mayoral candidate Nur Mahmudi Ismail
comes in as fourth richest. Nur, who will run with Yuyun
Wirasasmita, is a former forestry minister and chairman and
founder of the Justice Party (PK), which is now known as the
Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
Nur and Yuyun were nominated by PKS, which won the 2004
elections and is the largest faction in the Depok municipality in
West Java.
Yuyun was the six richest with Rp 1.16 billion in personal
wealth, followed by deputy mayoral candidate Ilham Wijaya with Rp
467.88 million, Syihabuddin with Rp 414.34 million, mayoral
candidate Abdul Wahab Abidin with Rp 332.15 million, and Farkhan
with Rp 129.25 million.
Wahab and his running mate Ilham are supported by the
Democratic Party, the second largest faction in Depok.
Chairman of the Democratic Party faction in the Depok
Legislative Council said last week that his faction did not
acknowledge the five other candidate teams because they had not
announced their wealth as required by government regulation
concerning the election of regional leaders.
Chairman of KPUD Depok, Zulkifli, said that the KPUD delayed
announcing the wealth of candidates because the data had be
verified by the BPK.