TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Man arrested for alleged fraud, promised victims civil servant jobs
The Jakarta Police have arrested a man identified as TK for alleged fraud against 51 contract teachers, whom he reportedly promised civil servant positions to at a price.
Change Size
In this file photo, candidates is seen taking the civil servant enrollment test. The Jakarta Police arrested a man accused of defrauding contract teachers applying to get tenure. (tribunnews.com/-)
T
he Jakarta Police have arrested a man identified as TK for alleged fraud against 51 contract teachers, whom he reportedly promised civil servant positions to at a price.
According to the police, TK was assisted by SLH and HRLN.
TK allegedly claimed to be able to secure positions at the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry. He reportedly amassed up to Rp 1.8 billion (US$136,000) from 51 victims.
"TK promised a contract teacher who did not pass the selection in 2013 a civil servant position for Rp 60 million," police spokesperson Sr.Comr. Argo Yuwono said on Tuesday as quoted by tempo.co.
Argo further said that in 2014, contract teachers from Jakarta, Brebes in Central Java and Sumedang in West Java had been made an offer and filled out applications for civil servant positions.
They only realized they were being deceived when TK said the employee intake would be announced through print media and the internet by the end of April 2014, however, as of May that year, no such announcements had been made. The application form they had filled out was also not an official form from the ministry. (wnd)
