Refeleksi : Jadi ceritanya korupsi adalah penyakit menular bagaikan gula
penarik semut? Semua partai politik yang bergandengan dengan rezim kleptokratik
akan tetap melakukan korupsi. NKRI atau jelasnya negara kleptokratik RI, akan
hanya menguntungkan mereka yang berkuasa dan konco bin sahabat yang
berdansa-dansi di pangung kekuasaan dan sekitarnya. Diluar dari batas ini
hanya ampas rejeki saja yang bisa didapat. Syukuralhamdullilah kalau kebetulan
ampas dibuang.Yang mendapat ampas untung yang tidak menapat ampas buntung.
Kemiskinan yang merajalela tak mungkin diberantas dengan korupsi penguasa!
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/pdi-p-lawmaker-says-fellow-party-members-tried-to-cover-up-bribery/367797
April 06, 2010
Nivell Rayda, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman
PDI-P Lawmaker Says Fellow Party Members Tried to Cover Up Bribery
On the eve of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's national congress
in Bali, one party member told the Anti-Corruption Court at his trial on Monday
that two fellow party members tried to cover up a major bribery case.
Lawmaker Dudhie Makmun Murod, a member of the party, also known as the PDI-P,
told the court that Trimedya Panjaitan, a member of the House of
Representatives' legal commission, recently visited him in his cell at the
Salemba Penitentiary in Central Jakarta and asked him to lie under oath.
"Later [in court] you must use your right to say what you want, you must
protect your brothers and your brothers will protect you," Dudhie quoted
Trimedya as having told him.
Speaking in Bali, Trimedya denied the allegation, saying he was just "visiting
a party cadre in trouble," adding that they had not discussed any specific
issues.
"I never asked him to do that," he said, adding that he did not visit Dudhie
alone.
"I went there with TK. It was TK who asked me to join him and visit Dudhie,"
Trimedya told the Jakarta Globe, referring to Taufik Kiemas, the party's
advisory board chairman and husband of the PDI-P's founder and chairwoman,
former President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Amir Karyatin, Dudhie's lawyer, confirmed that Taufik had come to the cell with
Trimedya.
KPK prosecutors have accused Dudhie and three other defendants of having
received a total of Rp 24 billion ($2.64 million) in bribes to get economist
Miranda Goeltom elected as Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor. Miranda won
41 out of the 51 votes of House Commission XI, which oversees finance and
banking.
Dudhie claimed Trimedya had been sent by another senior PDI-P lawmaker, Panda
Nababan, whom he has accused of receiving Rp 1.45 billion ($159,500) in
traveler's checks, which Panda has denied.
Binsar Toras Simaringan, Panda's former personal assistant who cashed 28 checks
worth Rp 1.45 billion soon after the vote, told the court the money went to
Komaruddin, a former editor at Prioritas daily, where Panda formerly worked as
deputy chief editor.
Meanwhile, Judge Nina Indrawati asked KPK prosecutors to conduct an assessment
of the condition of businesswoman Nunun Nurbaetie Daradjatun, whose husband
said she had been suffering from severe amnesia for three years.
The KPK suspects Nunun distributed 480 checks to the four defendants, who later
distributed them to members of their respective parties. She has ignored two
court summons.
"We need to have a second opinion," Nina told senior prosecutor Muhammad Rum.
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