Sutiyoso to be questioned in Ancol case

Sutiyoso to be questioned in Ancol case

JAKARTA: Jakarta Prosecutors' Office chief Moeljohardjo said
on Friday that the office would question Governor Sutiyoso next
week as a witness in an alleged corruption case involving foreign
trips conducted by city officials and councillors.

"We received the permission of the President on Tuesday to
question the governor," he said.

Moeljohardjo claimed Sutiyoso will be questioned as a witness
against three councillors who had earlier been declared suspects
in the case.

Several city officials and councillors joined trips to
Australia, Japan and South Korea financed from the city budget
and city-owned firm PT Pembangunan Jaya Ancol in October 2000.

The prosecutor's office earlier named Tarmidi Suhardjo and
Tarmidi Edy Suwarno of the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle and Ali Imran Hussein of the United Development Party,
as suspects in the case.

The councillors have been accused of accepting the trip
allowance although they did not join the trip. --JP