Erwida Maulia, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 01/11/2010 8:44 PM
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the Justice and Human Rights Ministry to follow up a finding on special facilities enjoyed by high-profile inmates at a Jakarta penitentiary.
Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha said Monday the President had heard about the finding by the newly established special task force to counter judicial corruption, which had inspected the cell of businesswoman and bribery convict Artalita Suryani at the Pondok Bambu Penitentiary, East Jakarta., among others.
During its impromptu inspection, the team found Artalita was occupying a 64-square-meter celled equipped with a spacious bed, refrigerator, TV, couch, tape player and a work desk, as well as an adjoining karaoke room in the cell of another prisoner, Liem “Aling” Marita.
“The President has asked the Justice and Human Rights Ministry to follow up on the team’s findings, as we know that every citizen undergoing due legal process must be treated equally,” Julian said at the Presidential Palace.
“There shouldn’t be any special treatment or anything like that enjoyed by certain inmates.”
He declined to say why Yudhoyono was making the knee-jerk reaction only now, given that it had long been public knowledge that well-heeled inmates could pretty much play house in local prison.
He also declined to comment on a report by Tempo magazine that corruption convict Aulia Pohan, a former deputy governor of the central bank and the father-in-law of Yudhoyono’s eldest son, was enjoying special treatment at the Kelapa Dua Penitentiary in Depok, West Java.
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