Mis-use of Aceh funds - Investigators name BRR staff
September 18th 2006 00:49
Aceh supply ship used for beach-landing reconstruction materials
A budget official was the first among officials identified by Indonesia's graft investigators, in the Banda Aceh-based Aceh and Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Bureau (BRR) whose chief visited Australian Prime Minister John Howard last Wednesday in Canberra - previous posting. That's according to a weekend report from People's Daily Online, extract as follows:
15 Sep 06: Indonesian prosecutors named two staff of the relief agency in Indonesia's province of Aceh as suspects in a corruption case, the spokesman of the provincial Attorney General office Muklis said here Thursday.
The agency's budget official Achyarmansyah and Hendrawan Diandi were allegedly involved in the mark up of prices in publication of a book by the national agency in May, which results in the agency's suffering financial loss of 400 million rupiah (40,000 U.S. dollars), a huge number according to the local standard, said Muklis.
The spokesman said that the prosecutors would investigate about 13 others possibly linking with the case.
In August, the Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) accused the agency of a 239,600 U.S. dollars irregularity during its operation of supplying books, office kits, direct appointment of contractor and destroying expired medicine.
The head of the agency Kuntoro Mangkusubroto has admitted the possibility of a misuse of donors' funds by the agency due to the emergency situation.
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