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KPK questions city deputy speaker over Jakarta Bay project
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Boats sail by Islet G in Jakarta Bay on Sept. 1, 2016. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
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he Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has questioned on Tuesday City Council Deputy Speaker M. Taufik in its investigation of possible graft in the deliberation of zoning bylaws in the Jakarta Bay land reclamation project.
The zoning bylaws regulate Jakarta's coastal areas and small offshore islands, as well as spatial planning of Jakarta's north-coast strategic area.
Taufik said that he was questioned on corporations related to islet G, which is being developed by PT Muara Wisesa Samudera, a subsidiary of property giant Agung Podomoro Land (APLN), as well as on Gubernatorial Regulation No. 137/2017 on city planning guidelines for islet G.
"The [regulation] for islet G was issued during the administration of Pak Djarot. We didn’t know about it," Taufik said, referring to former governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat, who led the capital from June 2017 until the new leadership was inaugurated last month.
The KPK also questioned Jakarta City Secretary Saefullah last Friday over the controversial reclamation project, in connection with an earlier bribery case that implicated Jakarta councilor Mohammad Sanusi.
Sanusi, who is Taufik's brother, has been convicted of bribery and money laundering.
Last year, APLN president director Ariesman Widjaja bribed Sanusi with Rp 2 billion (US$147,000) to pass a draft bylaw and lower the additional profit-sharing requirement from 15 percent to 5 percent for companies that won the reclamation project.
Sanusi was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined Rp 250 million for his role, while Ariesman was sentenced to three years in prison and fined Rp 200 million. (dis)
