Bribe money used for Mega’s campaign: Max

JAKARTA: Former Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Max Moein on Tuesday admitted to having accepted travelers’ checks worth a total of Rp 500 million (US$56,000), which he said was spent on campaigning for party leader Megawati Soekarnoputri in the 2004 presidential election.

“However, I did not know where the checks came from because I received them from my party, which had instructed us to help Mega win the most votes in our respective constituencies,” Moein said after questioning at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

The KPK has named Moein and 25 other former and current members of the House of Representatives graft suspects for allegedly accepting bribes to vote for Miranda S. Goeltom in the election for the Bank Indonesia deputy senior governor post in 2004. — JP