Supreme Court gives Artalyta luxury of prison term cut
Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 04/06/2010 8:19 PM
The Supreme Court has cut the jail term of businesswoman Artalyta Suryani by six months, only three months after the Judicial Anti-Corruption Taskforce found she enjoyed luxurious facilities inside her prison.
Supreme Court justice Hatta Ali said the revision was granted over “humanity reasons” in response to Artalyta’s case review request.
“Bribery convict Artalyta did not profit from the case,” Hatta said Tuesday, adding that she was only a broker.
“Besides, she is a woman. We cut her jail term based on a humanitarian consideration.”
The Supreme Court upheld last year a five-year jail term for Artalyta after finding her guilty of handing US$660,000 in bribes to state prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who was then leading a team investigating the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Support (BLBI) cases implicating tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim.
The Corruption Court sentenced Urip to 20 years in jail for accepting the bribe.
In January the taskforce discovered Artalyta, graft convict Darmawati Dareho and drug abuse convict Liem "Aling" Marita to have received exclusive facilities at the Pondok Bambu Women's Penitentiary. The three were then moved to Tangerang Penitentiary.
