Johnny G Plate is the fifth minister in President Joko Widodo's administrations to be charged with corruption.
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday arrested a senior cabinet minister on corruption charges in a case they said causedJohnny G Plate is the fifth minister in President Joko Widodo's administrations to be charged with corruption. Most recently, his social affairs and fisheries ministers were jailed in 2021 for graft.
The Attorney General's Office said Johnny was arrested for his involvement in the procurement of equipment needed to build thousands of communications towers, which his ministry said in 2020 would bring the internet to thousands of villages. Johnny was arrested "as a user of the budget and as a minister", said AGO official Kuntadi, without detailing the minister's specific role.
Another official Ketut Sumedana said the minister allegedly violated Indonesia's corruption law, which carries a maximum life sentence.The alleged corruption cost about 8 trillion rupiah in state losses, the AGO said. According to global graft watchdog Transparency International, Indonesia dropped four points on its corruption perception index last year to 110 out of 180 countries. REUTERS
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