Sutiyoso vows to bring corruption cases to court
Sutiyoso vows to bring corruption cases to court
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Sutiyoso on Wednesday vowed to bring
all of the 146 corruption cases allegedly committed by city
employees to the courts soon.
"I'll ask Pak (Abdul) Kahfi, the head of the reform team, to
hand over the 146 cases, in stages, to the courts," Sutiyoso told
reporters at City Hall.
According to standard procedure, the governor would first send
an official letter to inform the respective prosecutors' offices
here, depending upon which courts would handle the cases.
Responding to accusations that the reform team was reluctant
to bring the cases to court, preferring to solve the cases by
dispensing administrative sanctions, Sutiyoso said Kahfi and his
team members were attempting to enable their employees to change
their attitude.
"Once administrative penalties are imposed on those employees,
they would really feel ashamed. It's his (Kahfi's) way to educate
employees," Sutiyoso said.
On Tuesday, Kahfi, also deputy governor for administrative
affairs, said the 146 cases investigated by his reform team were
drawn from 374 cases involving corruption, collusion and nepotism
uncovered since the team was founded last June.
Investigation of the remaining 228 cases has yet to be
completed by the team.
"These cases are complex and difficult. It'll take some time
before the team can solve (them)," Kahfi said on Monday.
He said one of the cases involved officials from Korpri (civil
servants) Foundation and a senior official of the small-scale
business task force.
He said foundation officials had marked up prices of a 13.5-
hectare land appropriation scheme in Gunung Sahari, Central
Jakarta.
"Foundation staff changed the price of the land to Rp 10,000
per meter from between Rp 2,450 and Rp 5,000 per meter."
The alleged scam had caused the administration an estimated
loss of Rp 675 million, he said.
"We're still investigating the case," Kahfi said, adding that
his team have yet to summon foundation executives for
questioning.
Kahfi said another corruption case involved the head of the
education and training subdivision of the foundation, Dwi
Purwanto.
The reform team found Dwi had cheated at least 52 people, who
had approached him seeking employment, by providing the job
seekers with fake employment documents for a fee.
"He made as much as Rp 244.15 million from doing this," Kahfi
said.
Another case concerned land appropriation of a 95.5-hectare
plot -- initially intended as a garbage dumping site -- in
Ciangir area, Tangerang, he said.
Jakarta sanitation agency officials allegedly marked up the
price of the land from Rp 8,625 per square meter -- the amount
they compensated local land owners -- to Rp 14,000 per square
meter in their reports. (ylt)