Much Ado About Cloves
The AGO is preparing to drop the alleged corruption case of the Clove Marketing & Buffer Stock Agency (BPPC). The status of Tommy Suharto as suspect and his travel ban will be canceled. The AGO argues that BPPC settled its debts to the bank that previously disbursed loans to the agency. Indonesia Corruption Watch plans to call a pretrial hearing over the decision. In North Sulawesi, farmers threaten to institute a class action.
October 14, 2008
A NOTE of authorization from Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes of the Attorney General’s Office, Agung Marwan Effendy, went to the desk of Investigation Director Muhamad Farela in mid-September. The note asked Farela to immediately “follow up the instruction for examination with an instruction for discontinuation of examination.” Marwan’s order referred to the case of BPPC’s corruption allegation, in which Hutomo Mandala Putra
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