A Pandora’s Box Opens

After mentioning the name Jhonny Allen Marbun, Abdul Hadi Djamal also named Rama Pratama—a colleague of his at the House of Representatives—as involved in pushing through a stimulus fund increase. Abdul does not appear frightened by Rama’s threat to report him to the police for alleged defamation.

March 24, 2009

AN SMS ‘slipped’ into Hadiyani’s cellphone early last week. The message was written in a threatening tone: “Don’t stir things up and involve the media!” Hadiyani is the wife of Abdul Hadi Djamal, a suspect accused of accepting bribes in an infrastructure project funded under the 2009 government stimulus budget. This was not the first such message she has received. “The family has received threats and coercion on a number of occasion

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