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September 9, 2014 edition

ON JULY 23, corruption convict Siti Hartati Murdaya was granted a conditional release. The businesswoman who had bribed Buol Regent Amran Batalipu had served two thirds of her prison term of two years and eight months.
Indonesia Corruption Watch Coordinator Emerson Yuntho has asked the government to review the decision. He argues that under Government Regulation No. 99/2012, in order to obtain a conditional release, a corruption convict must not only have served two thirds of their sentence, but also become a justice collaborator and obtain a recommendation from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)-neither of which Siti has done.

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January 1, 1970 edition

To shed light on the Hambalang graft case, which concerns a sports center development project in Bukit Hambalang, Bogor, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) examined its former head of investigations, Brig. Gen. Yurod Saleh, on Thursday last week. Yurod was questioned for an hour and a half as a witness to Hambalang suspect Machfud Suroso, director of Duta Sari Citra Larasa company once owned by Atthiyah Laila, the wife of Anas Urbaningrum, a defendant in the case.
KPK Deputy Chairman Adnan Pandu Praja affirmed that Yurod's examination was meant to dig further into the Hambalang graft, including the information once provided by a convict in the Palembang Southeast Asian Games athletes village bribery case, Muhammad Nazaruddin. "It has become our homework to make further inquiries. A mere issue of the flow of money is difficult to prove," Adnan said. Yurod, asked to confirm following the questioning, declined to comment on the probe. "It was just for coordination," he said.

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