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Comment: Case broker gets 18 months in prison
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em>Oct. 12, Online: The South Jakarta Disctrict Court sentenced former diplomat Sjahril Djohan to 18 months’ imprisonment in connection with a bribery scandal on Tuesday. Sudarwin, the lead judge for the case, also ordered Sjahril to pay Rp 50 million or serve an additional four months in prison. Sjahril was found guilty in the graft case in which he have gave Rp 500 million (US$55,900) to then National Police chief detective Comr. Gen. Susno Duadji. The money was from Haposan Hutagalung, who wanted his client’s complaint to be investigated.
Your comments:
Eighteen months for a diplomat who stole Rp 500 million while a 60-year-old illiterate housemaid who was detained for allegedly stealing six plates from her employer faces five years in prison!
Raja Rote
Baa, East Nusa Tenggara
It’s yet another example of this country’s abominable judicial system that Sjahril Djohan has been sentenced to only 18 months and a fine of just Rp 50 million — even less than prosecutors’ demands.
Minus time already spent in detention and with good conduct plus the remissions so freely doled out here to corruption convicts and their facilitators, you can bet your last rupiah that the guy, with a big smirk on his face, will walk out of prison before next Lebaran, which he will no doubt happily spend amongst his beaming benefactors as well as beneficiaries.
Rest assured he’ll merrily go back to brokering cases, if not at National Police headquarters again, then most probably at the Attorney General’s Office or even the Supreme Court!
V.T. Hopkins
Jakarta
