Subdistrict chief gets two years jail

TANGERANG: Tangerang District Court sentenced a subdistrict chief to two years imprisonment on Tuesday for falsifying the thumb print of a local in March this year.

Presiding judge Satria U.S. Gumay said that defendant Abdul Nurjaya bin Mursin, 40, chief of Kiara Payung subdistrict, Paku Haji district of Tangerang, was guilty of counterfeiting a thumb print in a land document, in an attempt to sell a 6,000 square meter plot of land belonging to Naimah.

According to prosecutor Iwa Kusuma, the defendant sold the land for Rp 18 million to Ajat Sudrajat, an official at Tangerang Educational Agency who planned to construct a school building on the property.

When construction of the school building began, Naimah was surprised to learn that Sudrajat claimed he had bought the land since she had never sold the plot to any other party. -- JP