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AKARTA: Prosecutors demanded Monday that the Corruption Court sentence businessman Darianus Lungguk Sitorus to six years imprisonment for allegedly bribing a State Admi-nistrative Court.

Prosecutor Agus Salim said that Sitorus and his attorney, Adner Sirait, who is also a defendant in the case, had bribed Ibrahim, the judge who presided over the dispute between Sitorus’ company, PT Sabar Ganda, and the Jakarta Administration on the ownership of a land plot in West Jakarta.

Agus asked the court to order Sitorus to pay a Rp 150 million (US$16,800) fine or serve additional six months in prison.

Sitorus was named graft suspect several months after he was imprisoned for involvement in an illegal logging case.

Corruption Eradication Commission officials caught Ibrahim taking a Rp 300 million bribe from Abner, an attorney, in Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta. Adner faces a five years’ imprisonment term and a Rp 150 million fine.

Ibrahim was sentenced to six years in prison in August an ordered to pay a Rp 200 million fine or else serve an additional six months in prison.

He is only the second judge to have been convicted of graft in Indonesia. — JP