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View all search resultsThe Jakarta Corruption Court had found Idrus guilty of receiving Rp 2.25 billion (US$159,688) worth of bribes from businessman Johannes Budisutrisno Kotjo in return for the rights to develop the Riau-1 power plant and sentenced him to three years' imprisonment.
The Jakarta High Court has increased the prison sentence of Golkar Party politician and former social affairs minister Idrus Marham to five years’ imprisonment, months after he was found guilty of accepting bribes from a businessman to finance his failed bid to become the party’s leader.
In the case, which had also implicated the country’s second-largest party as among recipients of the bribes, she was sentenced to six years in prison and a Rp 500 million fine, as well as ordered to return Rp 5 billion and S$40,000 in restitution.
In the indictment read during the first hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Tuesday, a copy of which was made available to The Jakarta Post, prosecutors accused Idrus and fellow Golkar politician Eni Maulani Saragih of accepting Rp 2.25 billion (US$159,506) in installments from Johannes Budisutrisno Kotjo, one of the shareholders at energy firm BlackGold Natural Resources Limited.
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