ICW delays report to prosecutor’s office

JAKARTA: Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Coalition of Anti-Corruption in Education (KAKP)  decided to delay the plan to report two graft cases in schools to the Jakarta Prosecutor’s Office.
“We will wait for the official result of the investigation about our report from the city’s inspectorate,” Febri Hendri, ICW senior researcher, said Thursday.
He said the inspectorate might stop the investigation because the High Prosecutors’ Office would handle it.
“There is proof that [the inspectorate] neglected a report on the misappropriation of a block grant at elementary school UNJ in 2007, because the High Prosecutors’ Office had dealt with the case,” Febri said.  
Earlier this month, ICW and the KAKP visited the inspectorate office to report their finding on a corruption allegation at school SMPN 28 in Johar Baru, Central Jakarta.
ICW alleges school officials misappropriated funds from the central government’s School Operational Aid and the Jakarta administration’s Education Operational aid between 2007-2008, causing a Rp 390 million (US$41,000) loss.
ICW also alleges that elementary school SDN Complex UNJ allegedly misused a Rp 500 million grant from the central government in 2007 to alter from a  national-standard school to an international-standard pilot project. —JP