SEAB customer's complaint

JAKARTA (JP): A customer of South East Asian Bank (SEAB), which was liquidated last November, has complained about the difficulty in recovering a large part of her savings from the bank.

The customer, Indrawati Halim, said she had only received some Rp 30 million of the Rp 100 million in the account, suspecting that the remainder had been embezzled by irresponsible bank employees.

"I don't know where else I can turn too. I keep going to SEAB, trying to collect my money, but those bankers are already gone," she said.

Indrawati said she became a customer of SEAB in February 1995, and that two of the bank's employees, Sien Cu and Lili, had convinced her to keep all of her money there.

"At first everything went well. I admitted that I didn't know anything about banking, and so these two people guided me and persuaded me to put Rp 100 million in SEAB," she said.

SEAB was liquidated last November. The two bankers disappeared and Indrawati became worried about her money.

"I'm going crazy. I still haven't received the rest of the money," she said on Monday.

The case was reported to the city police for further investigation last month. (edt)