The Tenuous Money Trail to City Hall

Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Agus Rahardjo listened to a question posed by Junimart Girsang, a member of the House of Representatives (DPR) law commission. At the meeting on Wednesday last week, the KPK was asked to explain its handling of some cases.

After the legislators questioned the purchase of the Sumber Waras Hospital land by the Jakarta government, a case in which the KPK had just stopped its preliminary investigation, Junimart moved on to the bribery case over the land reclamation just off the coast of North Jakarta. "We received information that Rp30 billion from land reclamation developers were given to the Friends of Ahok group through Sunny and Cyrus," said the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician. "I don't know if the KPK has questioned Sunny or Cyrus."

June 21, 2016