Manokwari's Construction King

Dharnawati used the Alam Jaya Papua company to land large-scale projects. The company's owner is known to be close to Manokwari administration officials.

September 14, 2011

SINCE her arrest by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Dharnawati has had trouble getting a good night's sleep. She keeps thinking of her 10-year-old son, her youngest child and weeping, as she sits in her cell at the Pondok Bambu Detention Center in East Jakarta. On her first day in custody, she cried all day. "She also shouts hysterically," said Muhammad Burhanuddin, Dharnawati's lawyer, last week.

This 43-year-old woman was arrested by

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