Jumat, 23 Desember 2011

[buruh-migran] Politician Defends Corrupt Actions, Wanted to Build Mosque

 

Refl:  Istimewa  kelihaian koruptor yang membagi sebahagian hasil panen korupsi untuk dipakai guna membangun rumah ibadah. Agaknya dalam pikiran sang koruptor ini ialah semoga dengan sumbangannya membuat Allah untuk mencatat kebaikan hatinya dan dengan begitu tidak akan menolaknya untuk masuk  ke surga di kemudian hari. Rupanya pandangan demikian ini tertanam dalam pikiran para petinggi NKRI bahwa bila sebahagian dari hasil panen korupsi disumbangkan kepada  kepentingan illahi maka mereka tidak berdosa dan oleh sebab itu kita saksikan bahwa korupsi berjalan terus tanpa meminta permisi untuk istirahat abadi..
 
 

Politician Defends Corrupt Actions, Wanted to Build Mosque
Rizky Amelia | December 22, 2011

Sofyan Usman, second from left, after his indictment on Dec. 15. Prosecutors demanded the court sentence him to serve one year and 11 months for receiving a Rp 1 billion bride from the Batam government in 2004 and 2005. (Antara Photo) Sofyan Usman, second from left, after his indictment on Dec. 15. Prosecutors demanded the court sentence him to serve one year and 11 months for receiving a Rp 1 billion bride from the Batam government in 2004 and 2005. (Antara Photo)

 

A former lawmaker involved in two different corruption cases said on Thursday that he did not deserve to be punished because his actions had a noble mission: building a mosque.

"Do I, as [a former] lawmaker who intended to help the construction of a mosque, deserve to be jailed?" Sofyan Usman, a former lawmaker from the United Development Party, asked during his trial at the Anti-Corruption Court on Thursday.

Sofyan allegedly received a bribe worth Rp 850 million ($93,500) in check form and Rp 150 million in cash for approving the amount requested by the Batam authority for its regional budget in 2004 and 2005. Sofyan was a member of the House Budget Committee during those years.

"I did not use the money for my personal interest or for others," he said. "Whoever was in [my] position as a committee chairman will try to find money from several sources to build a mosque."

This is not the first time Sofyan used the reason of building a mosque in his defense. In June, a judge sentenced him to serve a year and three months and fined him Rp 50 million for receiving a bribe in the scandal to choose the deputy senior governor of Bank Indonesia in 2004.

He told the court that he thought the Rp 250 million check he had received was a donation to build the mosque.

"I was the head of the construction committee for the mosque and I worked hard to collect donations," Sofyan said during the trial in June.

The mosque is located in the House members' complex in Cakung, East Java.

In the Batam case, Sofyan was charged with an article in the Anti-Corruption Law that carries a maximum sanction of five years imprisonment and a Rp 250 million fine.

The prosecutor asked for a punishment of one year and 11 months in the Batam cas

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