Tripped over Renovation

The KPK holds two former high-ranking officers of the Indonesian embassy in Singapore for allegedly misappropriating funds for renovation of the embassy building and ambassador’s residence. Conspiring with a local contractor, the money was distributed among staff at the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Department.

May 20, 2008

WITH a face as if just awakened from sleep and with unkempt grey hair, Mochamad Slamet Hidayat, wearing only a white T-shirt, sat behind the desk of the visitors room. Sometimes he would return the smiles of his wife, who was dressed in black and heavily made-up, on Thursday last week.

On that particular day this former Indonesian Ambassador to Singapore had been staying for a week at the National Police HQ detention house. “I can take a rest

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