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Koran graft convict's appeal refused
The Jakarta High Court has refused an appeal request submitted by the Religious Affairs Ministryâs former director of Islamic affairs and sharia guidance, Ahmad Jauhari, who had been sentenced to eight years in prison by the Jakarta Corruption Court for his involvement in a graft case related to Koran procurements in 2011 and 2012
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he Jakarta High Court has refused an appeal request submitted by the Religious Affairs Ministry's former director of Islamic affairs and sharia guidance, Ahmad Jauhari, who had been sentenced to eight years in prison by the Jakarta Corruption Court for his involvement in a graft case related to Koran procurements in 2011 and 2012.
Jakarta High Court head of information and communications, Hatta, said the panel of judges had instead increased Jauhari's sentence. 'The panel ruled to increase his sentence to 10 years from eight years imprisonment,' he said, as quoted by kontan.co.id in Jakarta on Sunday.
Hatta refused to give details about the considerations taken by the judicial panel, led by Syamsul Bahri Bapatua, in refusing Jauhari's appeal request and instead increasing his sentence.
On April 10, the Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced Jauhari to eight years in prison and ordered him to pay Rp 200 million (US$17,000) in fines, or face an additional six months imprisonment for his involvement in the Koran procurement corruption case. The court also ordered Jauhari to return bribe money worth Rp 100 million and $15,000 he received from the tender winner to the state. However, the ministry's senior official had already turned the money over to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) during the investigation.
The Jakarta High Court's judicial panel ruled that as an official responsible for committing to projects, Jauhari was proven to have been guilty of corruption in the 2011-2012 Koran procurement process.
Jauhari appointed PT A31 as the tender winner to supply Rp 22.87 billion worth of Korans in 2011. In 2012, he chose PT Sinergi Pustaka Indonesia as the winner of the same project, worth Rp 59.3 billion. Through the two projects, he was accused to have caused the state to lose Rp 27.05 billion.
Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) coordinator for the law and judicature monitoring division, Emerson Yuntho, said Jauhari should have been sentenced to 13 years in prison at a minimum, as requested by the KPK prosecutors. (alz/ebf)
