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Islands in focus: Village head bribed police, military officers

Selok Awar-Awar village head Haryono of Pasirian district, Lumajang regency, East Java has admitted to bribing police and military officers to secure sand mining operations in his village

The Jakarta Post
Surabaya
Tue, October 13, 2015

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Islands in focus: Village head bribed police, military officers

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elok Awar-Awar village head Haryono of Pasirian district, Lumajang regency, East Java has admitted to bribing police and military officers to secure sand mining operations in his village.

'€œI once gave between Rp 500,000 [US$35] to Rp 1 million from mining activities to two police officers and two military officers,'€ Haryono told an open police ethics hearing at East Java Police headquarters in Surabaya on Monday.

 The hearing was conducted against three police officers, Pasirian Police Chief Adj. Comr. S, the Pasirian Police'€™s crime unit chief, Sec. Insp. SH and the police'€™s community supervision division chief Sec. Adj. Insp. SP, who allegedly received the bribes.

The officers were brought to the hearing after the death of anti mining activist Salim Kancil, who was beaten by a group of gangsters for staging a rally in front of the village office with other activists and farmers to protest mining activities on Sept. 26.

The police have named Haryono and 22 others suspects in the case.

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