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Islands in focus: Court acquits 23 graft defendants in five years
PADANG: Since its establishment five years ago, the Padang Corruption Court in West Sumatra, has acquitted 23 of 220 defendants charged with corruption, the Integritas Anticorruption Institute announced in its year-end report in Padang
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ADANG: Since its establishment five years ago, the Padang Corruption Court in West Sumatra, has acquitted 23 of 220 defendants charged with corruption, the Integritas Anticorruption Institute announced in its year-end report in Padang.
'This is a bad record from the Padang Corruption Court,' Integritas coordinator Arif Paderi told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
Integritas noted that seven defendants were released in 2011 in the bird-flu mitigation funds case in Limapuluh Kota regency and a case of funds misuse at the Syekh Djamil STAIN state academy in Jambek, Bukittinggi.
The seven defendants were acquitted in 2014 for misappropriating South Solok administration travel funds, Padang PDAM state tap-water company legal assistance funds, in Padang Pariaman social assistance funds and certain Haji Agus salim Youth Sports Hall facilities in Padang.
'In addition, the Padang Corruption Court [has been biased and imbalanced] in its bringing charges, its verdicts and general selective treatment of defendants,' said Arif.
From several cases monitored by Integritas, added Arif, defendants with political, material and financial influence tended to get special treatment from prosecutors, such as not being held, and given lighter charges and sentences.
