Three BAKN staff arrested for forging promotion papers
Three BAKN staff arrested for forging promotion papers
JAKARTA (JP): The Jakarta Police have apprehended three
employees of the Institute of State Personnel Administration
(BAKN) for allegedly forging teachers' promotion documents, an
officer said on Monday.
The city police chief of detectives, Col. Alex Bambang
Riatmodjo, said it was believed the three suspects issued
hundreds of false documents, mostly for junior high school
teachers in Jakarta and several other cities in Kalimantan.
"The three have operated their activities since 1995, but we
have yet to calculate losses incurred," Alex said.
Losses have been incurred by the government because it
subsequently raised the teachers' salaries in line with their
supposed promotions.
Alex identified the suspects as Marham and Bambang -- staffers
in the administration department -- and Fadilla from an
unidentified division who supplied the blank forms to be forged.
Marham, a resident of Karawaci in Tangerang, was arrested in
his house on May 6, while Bambang and Fadilla were apprehended
one day later when they were about to leave the BAKN office on
Jl. Letjen Soetoyo in East Jakarta.
It is believed Marham is the key suspect who scouted around
for teachers and negotiated the price for the false promotions.
Marham admitted to the police that he first falsified
documents for teachers in state SMPN 12 junior high school in
Kebayoran Baru in South Jakarta in 1995.
During preliminary questioning, Marham said he had issued
about 350 documents, Alex said.
Bambang and Fadilla were accomplices in that they typed out
and supplied the forms.
However, the three suspects declined to speak to reporters.
Marham only said, "Don't ask me, I'm ashamed."
Police have reportedly urged the Ministry of Education and
Culture to withdraw the promotion documents from teachers to help
complete the investigation.
Meanwhile, the Tangerang Police arrested a man for alleged
involvement in selling obsolete Brazilian money and confiscated
28 packs of the obsolete money.
Tangerang Police chief Lt. Col. Pudji Hartanto identified the
suspect as 40-year-old Salaman. He said Salaman was arrested
after the capture of Tjong T. Wei in a night raid for possessing
three packs of the obsolete Brazilian money.
Tjong admitted obtaining the money from Salaman and said he
was about to return the money to him as he found out that the
money was worthless, Pudji said.
Salaman was arrested later in his house where the police found
the 28 packs of the Brazilian money, which became obsolete in
1980.
The money was in denominations of 5,000 cruzados and 10,000
cruzados.
Salaman told the police the money had been bought from a man
identified as Heru from Semarang, the capital of Central Java.
"The packs of 5,000 notes were bought for Rp 2.25 million and
sold again for Rp 2.5 million, while the 10,000 cruzados notes
were bought for Rp 700,000 and sold for Rp 1 million," Pudji
quoted Salaman as saying.
The suspect said he did not know the whereabouts of Heru or
his address as Heru visited him at his house and dropped the
money there.
Salaman said he did not know the money was worthless.
He said the money was mainly intended for money collectors,
who liked to buy old money, including old Indonesian bank notes
which bore the picture of late president Sukarno.
"The profession (of selling old money) is very popular now,
but I want to quit as it forces me to deal with the police," he
said.
Pudji said Salaman face charges of violating Article No. 245
of the Criminal Code on trading in counterfeit money, which
carries a maximum penalty of 15 years imprisonment. (emf/41)