Fracture Post-Reclamation
Sunny Tanuwidjaja became Basuki Tjahaja Purnama’s right-hand man when the latter was Jakarta’s deputy governor. Their close relationship ended after the KPK exposed the bribery surrounding the Jakarta Bay reclamation project.
Wayan Agus Purnomo
February 18, 2020
BASUKI Tjahaja Purnama often becomes angry when recalling his time testifying at the Jakarta Corruption Court on July 25, 2017. That day, the prosecutor played a recording of a conversation between Sunny Tanuwidjaja and Mohamad Sanusi, a suspect in the Jakarta Bay reclamation graft case. In the recording, Sunny asked Sanusi, a member of the Jakarta Legislative Council, why the draft regional regulation on the reclamation was not yet finished.
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