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Forgetful Alleged 'Big Chief' Mahyuddin Says Prawns, Not Payoffs Discussed
Novianti Setuningsih | February 18, 2012

Democratic Party lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S. appeared before the Anti-Corruption Court in Jakarta on Friday. JG Photo/Yudhi Sukma Wijaya Democratic Party lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S. appeared before the Anti-Corruption Court in Jakarta on Friday. JG Photo/Yudhi Sukma Wijaya
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DrDez
10:32am Feb 19, 2012

last night whilst in a restaurant I ordered udang bakar.... you can imagine my surprise when they brought me a plate full of $

dentonboyz
8:28am Feb 19, 2012

Taken from Wikipedia:

Most common mental disorders affect cognitive functions, mainly memory processing, perception and problem solving. The most direct cognitive disorders are amnesia, dementia and delirium. Others include anxiety disorders such as phobias, panic disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder are also cognitive mental disorders. Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and delusional disorder are also classified as cognitive mental disorders.

If he has this kind of illness, why does he still sit in DPR?? As a lawmaker, we need a fully functioning brain for our country problem solving. Yeah, now i get it. That's why the attendance is so low. They forget they are "lawmakers". Bleeeh...

blightyboy
7:19am Feb 19, 2012

It is amazing that they are deemed 100% medically fit to serve as a lawmaker, but when facing awkward questions they produce doctors letters saying they are seriously incapacitated due to terrible illnesses.

I have worked in a number of senior management roles in my life. I have employed many people, usually I got it right, but when I did-not and somebody I personally endorsed went bad, I usually had serious explaining to do. So what I find truly extraordinary, I understand that The President has personally interviewed all senior members of the government and presumably his party also, even I believe asking them to sign guarantees relating to performance, yet he never takes any responsibility at all when they turn out to be rotten, and never can be questioned, accept at stage managed events. How can one man have got it so wrong, so often, and still be in a job he clearly cannot do?

Surely SBY has brought together the worst bunch of thieves, despots, morons and bigots ever in the Worlds history and with them, laughingly, formed a government. This man has though his personal failures virtually destroyed his party and the country, and still he keeps his job. Only dictators can hold on to power in this way.

apaajaboleh
10:06pm Feb 18, 2012

“I would like to present a letter that I have a cognitive disorder; that is why I keep on forgetting,”....

But he remembers that they talked about prawns. This guy, like all his colleagues, is so full of crock.

devine
8:28pm Feb 18, 2012

good point padt & facepalm. kindergarden as usual. Pure. No shame.

Lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S. says prawns and not money was the topic of a discussion at the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry last year between himself, graft suspects Angelina Sondakh, Muhammad Nazaruddin and Wafid Muharram, and the minister, Andi Mallarangeng.

Mahyuddin, chairman of House of Representatives Commission X, which oversees sports, said the only thing he could remember about the meeting was what they ate.

“Angie was sitting next to me and she had just given birth. As a doctor myself, I reminded her not to eat too many prawns,” he said while testifying at Nazaruddin’s trial on Friday.

Nazaruddin, a former treasurer of the Democratic Party, is on trial at the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court for receiving Rp 4.3 billion ($477,000) to rig the tender for the construction of an athletes’ village for last year’s Southeast Asian Games.

Nazaruddin earlier claimed that plans to rig the tender were formulated during the meeting at the ministry, with all sides agreeing to overlook any irregularities in exchange for kickbacks.

But Mahyuddin, also a Democrat, told the court that he couldn’t remember what was discussed at the meeting because it was not important.

He did remember that the meeting was staged at lunch time.

“We ate, so we didn’t talk much. We ate a lot,” he said. “Nazar also ate a lot. After we ate, we all went home.”

Throughout Friday’s court session, Mahyuddin repeatedly answered “I can’t remember” and “I have no recollection of that,” frustrating both the prosecution and Nazaruddin’s lawyer.

“You are a professor at Sriwijaya University. Of course you have to be committed to the truth. I would like to remind you that you are under oath,” prosecutor Yuli Kristiana said.

Mahyuddin responded by submitting a letter from his doctors to the panel of judges.

“I would like to present a letter that I have a cognitive disorder; that is why I keep on forgetting,” he said, adding that he also once had a stroke.

But Mahyuddin appeared certain when the court asked him whether he received kickbacks from the Rp 191 billion project.

“No, your honor. I have already explained to the media that I didn’t receive anything,” he said.

Mahyuddin also denied that he is the “big chief.”

Previously, Nazaruddin’s employee and co-suspect in the case, Mindo Rosalina Manulang, said the “big chief” mentioned in a BlackBerry Messenger conversation she had with Angelina in June 2010 was Mahyuddin.

In the conversation, Angelina said that the “big chief” wanted “Malang apples,” believed to be a cover term for money.

Three people, including Rosalina and Wafid, have been found guilty for their roles in the case.

Earlier this month, Angelina was named a suspect for receiving a Rp 2 billion “fee” linked to the project.

A number of other lawmakers and politicians have been linked to the case. These include I Wayan Koster, a House Budget Committee member from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum and House Budget Committee deputy chairman Mirwan Amir, who is also a Democrat.