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Deputy gubernatorial candidate notes error in police summons
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Sylviana Murni (center) poses for a wefie with Anies Baswedan (left to right), Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, Sandiaga Uno, Djarot Saiful Hidayat and Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, uploaded to Anies' Path account on Sept. 24, 2016. (tempo.co/Anies Baswedan's Path)
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akarta deputy gubernatorial candidate Sylviana Murni claims there was an error in a police summons instructing her to go to the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department’s (Bareskrim) on Friday in regard to a graft case involving social aid funds.
"The summons was about the management of social aid from the Jakarta administration [to the Jakarta Scout Movement]. However, this is not about social aid but a grant," she said after being questioned by Bareskrim, which is currently based at the ombudsman building in South Jakarta.
On Wednesday, Bareskrim summoned Sylviana, the running mate of gubernatorial candidate Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, to be questioned as a witness in a social aid corruption case in relation to the Jakarta Scout Movement in 2014 and 2015.
Sylviana, who is the Jakarta Scout chairwoman for 2013-2018, said the police had it wrong in the summons because according to a gubernatorial decree signed by former Jakarta governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in 2014, the funds earmarked by the administration for the Jakarta Scout Movement were to be a grant, not social aid.
She went on to say the scouts had received a Rp 6.8 billion (US$505,952) grant from the administration.
She admitted that some activities were not implemented for various reasons in 2014 and the scouts returned some of the funds to the administration. "We have evidence that they returned about Rp 801 million to the administration."
