Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) chief Hadi Poernomo reported Tuesday to the antigraft body a Rp 12 billion (US$1.3 million) addition to his Rp 26 billion wealth in 2006, mostly from donations.

Hadi’s report to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on his assets show that he has been sitting on more than a Rp 38 billion fortune as of February.

“I received Rp 36 billion in donation from my parents, siblings and relatives. It is mostly in the form
of immobile assets,” he said at the KPK office.

A former tax director general, Hadi has been under the spotlight after an NGO discovered that 98 percent of Hadi’s wealth came from dubious sources.

Many are reportedly skeptical about the newly elected BPK chieftain.

Hadi maintained that the donations were legitimate.

“They are halal,” he said Tuesday. “They are gifts from my family.”

KPK deputy chief Haryono Umar said the commission was still verifying Hadi’s wealth report.

“I have not received a result from the LHKPN [wealth report division]. Hopefully we will have the information verified soon,” he added.

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said it was possible that state officials had claimed their wealth came from family and friends in an effort to hide dubious sources.

“The question we want to know is if Hadi applied this modus.

“The LHKPN must answer that using effective verification andclarification techniques,” ICW deputy coordinator Adnan Topan Husodo said.

Adnan lamented the legal system, which he said was not strong enough to regulate state officials’ wealth reports.

“The law requires state officials to report their wealth, but the law does not stipulate fines against those who do not, or those who falsify reports,” he told The Jakarta Post.

He was referring to the 1999 Law on good governance, which requires public officials to disclose their assets to the KPK.

Adnan said the KPK or other law enforcement institutions could not demand state officials to prove the legitimacy of their wealth.

“Officials should be obliged to report their wealth and face consequences if they do not,” he said.
The lenient law and law enforcement institutions’ lack of authority, he said, “were loopholes in the legal system”.

“What we have is a corruption eradication [effort] that is not supported by a strong system.”

All seven BPK members and a deputy chairman also submitted their wealth reports to the KPK. Deputy chief Herman Widyananda said his wealth stood at Rp 4.3 billion and $110,039 as of February 2010, up from around Rp 3.6 billion reported in April 2008.

BPK member T.M. Nurlif, who is implicated in a bribery case relating to the election of a central bank deputy governor in 2004, reported his wealth of Rp 4.7 billion and $11,345 as of September 2009.
He said he had stated in a June 2004 report that his wealth stood at Rp 3.3 billion.


Hadi Poernomo Wealth Report

As of June, 14 2006
Immobile assets: Rp 24.8 billion
Transportation and machinery: Rp 0
Other mobile assets: Rp 1.5 billion
Savings accounts and other cash equivalent: Rp 308 million
Total: Rp 26.62 billion

As of Feb, 9 2010
Immobile assets: Rp 36.92 billion
Transportation and machinery: Rp 0
Other mobile assets: Rp 1.52 billion
Savings accounts and other cash equivalent: Rp 293 million
Total: Rp 38.8 billion

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