Witnesses presented in Endin's trial
Witnesses presented in Endin's trial
JAKARTA (JP): The Central Jakarta District Court presented on
Tuesday four witnesses during the trial of Endin Wahyudin in a
defamation case filed by two Supreme Court justices.
The witnesses included Marnis Kahar and Supraptini Sutarto,
the justices who had filed the defamation charges; Mesri
Pasaribu, Endin's colleague and Ahmad Rizki, supervision section
head of the central bank.
Judge Amiruddin Zakaria, who presided over the trial, said
that Endin's lawyer, Irianto Subiakto, had asked the court to
summon Marnis, Supraptini and Mesri again.
They had testified earlier during Endin's trial.
Ahmad, who was presented during the trial as an expert
witness, confirmed that Bank Indonesia issued the Rp 50,000
(US$5.9) banknotes, with WR Soepratman's picture on it, on June
1, 1999. "Beforehand the banknote was illegal," he remarked.
In the dossier, Endin admitted that he had given some Rp 50
million to each of the justices and Rp 96 million to M. Yahya
Harahap, a retired Supreme Court justice, late in 1998. The money
is said to be consisted of the Rp 50,000 banknotes featuring the
pictures of Soeharto and national hero WR Soepratman.
He told the now defunct joint anticorruption team (TGPTPK)
about the bribery involving the justices.
Endin, a middleman, admitted that he had bribed three judges
to win a legal dispute over a 17,000-square-meter plot of land in
Bandung, West Java.
He then became a witness during the trial of Marnis,
Supraptini and Harahap. However, the Central Jakarta District
Court and the West Jakarta District Court suspended their trial
last week.
The two justices filed a defamation case against Endin with
the police last August.
Meanwhile, three other witnesses insisted on not changing
their statements as stated in the case files.
Mesri insisted that he had accompanied Endin to give the money
to bribe the justices while Marnis and Supraptini also insisted
that they had never met or received any payment as claimed by
Endin. (04)