Jungle Treasure
A pile of documents is being widely circulated. It contains stacks of memos, checks, banking notes and receipts which are raising questions of possible embezzlement of Rp168 billion of Association of Indonesian Forestry Concessionaires (APHI) funds. Some were listed as aid given to the Raudatul Jannah Foundation, contribution of automobiles to legislators and policemen, others were spent on service fees for private cars and wedding gifts for children of APHI executives. Charges are being directed at Adiwarsita Adinegoro, APHI Chairman and a respectable member of the People's Consultative Assembly. Is he involved? If so, how deep is his involvement?
December 16, 2003
A BUNDLE of documents enraged Mohamad "Bob" Hasan in the Nusakambangan penitentiary. On the envelope, the sender had only written the pseudonym "Kurniawan Atmajaya", address: Cinere, South Jakarta. The 200-page papers reveal alleged manipulation and corruption in the Association of Indonesian Forestry Concessionaires (APHI), involving Rp168 billion. "I worry about why association funds have been wasted on questionable
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