Borang: an Electric Storm
TEMPO has in its possession a stack of documents showing irregularities behind the procurement tender process for the Borang electricity generating turbines in South Sumatra, three years ago. Long before the tender was held, PT Guna Cipta Mandiri owned by Johanes Kennedy Aritonang, appears to have been “groomed” to win the bid. An audit by the Finance Development Controller (BPKP) concluded that the state suffered losses of as much as Rp24 billion. It is not improbable that State Electricity Company (PLN) CEO Eddie Widiono and other PLN officials—who for the moment are still free—will soon be brought to justice.
October 9, 2007
IT was almost midnight when the small bag was brought into the Criminal Investigation Bureau hall at the National Police HQ in Jl. Trunojoyo in South Jakarta. The bag must surely have contained the clothes of a “respected” person, because some among the scores of people in the room looked at it with an air of “respect.”
It turns out that the bag belonged to Eddie Widiono, CEO of PLN, a suspect in a corruption case involving the procureme
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