3 Former Jember Officials Convicted Of DAK Corruption Surrender, Directly Thrown To Jail

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JEMBER - Three former officials in the Jember Regency Government (Pemkab) who were convicted of corruption in the 2010 education special allocation fund (DAK) turned themselves in to the Jember District Attorney, East Java.

The three officials who had served in the Education Office of the Jember Regency Government in 2010, namely Sudjarwono, Malai Sondi (Staff of the Planning Sub Division at the Education Office) and Sugeng B Resobowo (Secretary of Jember Kidul Village) surrendered to the Jember Kejari after receiving the Supreme Court's cassation decision.

"We appreciate the families of the three convicts who presented the convicts voluntarily to the prosecutor's office, so that there was no attempt to force the convicts to pick up the convicts based on the Supreme Court's decision," said Head of Intel Kejari Jember Soemarno, quoted by Antara, Thursday, September 16.

According to him, the Jember District Attorney's Office received a copy of the official decision of the Supreme Court cassation which rejected the appeal of the three convicts last week, so this week they carried out the execution of the decision and the three convicts voluntarily surrendered themselves to the prosecutor's office.

"The Supreme Court rejected the cassation request from the defendant and granted the Public Prosecutor's cassation request, thus canceling the decisions of the Surabaya District Court and the East Java High Court," he said.

In the decision of the Supreme Court's cassation, the three convicts were sentenced to one year in prison with a fine of Rp. 50 million with the provision that if the fine was not paid, it was replaced with imprisonment for three months.

"The convict had served 42 days of detention while undergoing a legal process in 2011 because the case was an old case that was decided at the Surabaya District Court Corruption Court in 2012," he said.

The corruption case of the 2010 DAK education budget related to textbooks and teaching aids cost the state Rp6.1 billion.

The three former Jember Regency Government officials were finally sent to the Jember Class II-A Penitentiary to undergo the decision of the Supreme Court.

The 2010 DAK corruption case also dragged the Head of the Jember Education Office, Achmad Sudiyono, who had already served four years in prison and is now free.