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orruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prosecutors indicted former Buol regent Amran Batalipu on Thursday on multiple charges of bribery that could put him away for 20 years should he be proven guilty.

The prosecutors charged Amran under Article 12a on bribery of the Anticorruption Law as his primary indictment. They also accused him of violating Article 5 on bribery and Article 11 on gratuity of the same law.

“We demand that the panel of judges declare the defendant [Amran] guilty as charged and sentence him to 20 years in prison,” prosecutor Irene Puteri said as she read out the indictment at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Thursday.

Amran, a Golkar politician, was accused of accepting Rp 3 billion (US$315,000) from PT Hardaya Inti Plantation (HIP) chief director Siti Hartati Murdaya and her subordinates Totok Lestiyo, Yani Anshori, and Gondo Sudjono.

The bribe was allegedly paid in exchange for business permits for Hartati’s companies to operate on 4,500 hectares of land in Buol, Central Sulawesi.

Amran was forcefully arrested on July 6 at his home in Leok I village, Buol.