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View all search resultsAhok expects more suspects to be named in UPS case
A man checks out the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) at SMA 78 state senior high school in Jakarta on Feb
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span class="caption">A man checks out the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) at SMA 78 state senior high school in Jakarta on Feb. 28, 2015. (Antara/Puspa Perwitasari)
Jakarta Governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama has said that he will disclose more evidence in his testimony during a court hearing on Thursday to help police name more suspects in a graft case surrounding the procurement of uninterruptable power supply (UPS) units.
Ahok will give testimony against Alex Usman, a suspect in the case and the former infrastructure division head at the West Jakarta Education Office. 'I want my testimony to strengthen prosecutors' indictment. I think another suspect will be named in this case,' Ahok said as quoted by kompas.com.
Ahok said he would provide a chronology of events in the case, including the inclusion of the UPS procurement in the revised 2014 city budget, although it was initially not in the General Policy for City Budget Priorities and the Tentative Budget Platform (KUA-PPAS).
Ahok did not name possible suspects, but he previously said that he was cheated by his former subordinates ' former Jakarta city secretary Saefullah and former education agency head Lasro Marbun ' who told him that they did not know about the UPS procurement.
'Only after [a recent] court hearing], I realized that the former education agency head and city secretary knew about the case,' Ahok said.
City Council deputy speaker Abraham 'Lulung' Lunggana has called on the court to compare Ahok's testimony with that of Saefullah and Lasro..
Two Jakarta civil servants are standing trial in the case, Alex and Zaenal Soleman, the former head of the Central Jakarta Education Office. In November, the National Police also named Fahmi Zulfikar, a Hanura Party councillor and member of the council's Commission E overseeing people's welfare, and M. Firmansyah, a Democratic Party councillor during the 2009 to 2014 period, suspects in the case.
The case relates to UPS procurement in the revised 2014 city budget at a price of Rp 6 billion (US$433,839) per unit for each schools with a total budget of Rp 300 billion. (call/bbn)
