Three Thousand and One Cables

A total of 3,059 US embassy cables in Jakarta have begun to be released by WikiLeaks. Published by two Australian newspapers, the cables contained information that took a direct shot at the Presidential Palace.

March 23, 2011

FARIED Harianto suddenly became busy last week. The head of the East Kalimantan Prosecutor’s Office flew to Jakarta to review case files he once handled 12 years ago.

As the investigating prosecutor and general prosecutor at the Jakarta Outer Ring Road project corruption case, he was given the order to take another look at the documents and case files. “I reopened all the old files,” Faried told Tempo, on Wednesday last week.

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