July 23, 2007

The Anticorruption Court sentenced ex-Minister of Maritime Affairs, Rokhmin Dahuri, to seven years in jail. He was found guilty of dishing out Rp31.6 billion in non-budgetary funds to some 2,000 people, including politicians, wives of government officials, religious leaders, journalists and presidential candidates, while in office from 2002 to 2005. Dahuri appealed the decision. When the High Court upheld the decision, Dahuri file