The Consequences of a 'Flawed System'
The Corruption Crimes Court has declared KPU member Mulyana Kusumah guilty. In the meantime, the KPK has vouched to continue investigations into further allegations of corruption involving the KPU. LAST Monday, Gina Santayana, the eldest daughter of Mulyana Kusumah listened intently to judicial panel chairperson Masruddin Chaniago as he read out the court's verdict over her father at the Corruption Crimes Court in Jakarta. When Chaniago delivered the verdict, Santayana burst into tears. "That is not fair," she cried after Chaniago announced that the court had sentenced the defendant to "two years and seven months in prison." Kusumah, a member of the General Elections Commission (KPU), was found guilty of bribing Supreme Audit Agency investigating audit team chief, Khairiansyah Salman. Kusumah was caught handing over Rp150 million to Salman at the Ibis Hotel in Slipi, Jakarta, last April. According to the presiding judicial panel, Kusumah had violated Article 5 o...