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Sofyan Gets 14 Months Despite Mosque-Building Claims
Ronna Nirmala | January 05, 2012

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SirAnthonyKnown-Bender
6:29pm Jan 5, 2012

Heh, stealing money is okay if it's to build a mosque? Well I'm no expert on Islam but I'm pretty sure that's not how things are supposed to work.

ari0406
6:17pm Jan 5, 2012

Shameful rationale, he will stay at the bottom of hell.


mariojl
5:46pm Jan 5, 2012

Funny, Sin is always sin, even he used it for good, stealing money is still a sin, and still need to be punished EQUALLY like the other crime is.

SuperBukowski
5:26pm Jan 5, 2012

Oh and isn't it all so just that he gets 14 months for stealing money and the murderers of the 3 Ahmadiyah community members got 5 weeks. They beat those poor people to death with clubs like animals and they got 5 weeks. Indonesia you are a so stupid, hypocritical and self-righteous.


SuperBukowski
5:23pm Jan 5, 2012

Pitiful. How can any sane man say that he should not be punished for STEALING cause he used the STOLEN money to build a house of God? Fricken retarded. It's 2012, if you are that simple and stupid by now you should be locked up forever cause you CHOOSE to be a retarded a-hole.


Ignoring politician Sofyan Usman’s defense that the money he got from corruption was used to build a mosque, the Jakarta Anti-Corruption court sentenced him to one year and two months in jail on Thursday.

The court found him guilty for accepting a bribe for Rp 850 million ($93,500) in check form and Rp 150 million in cash for approving the amount requested by the Batam authority for its regional budget in 2004 and 2005. Sofyan, from the United Development Party (PPP), was a member of the House Budget Committee during those years.

In a previous court hearing, Sofyan claimed that he did not deserve punishment because he used the money to build a mosque located in the House members’ complex in Cakung, East Jakarta.

“I did not use the money for my personal interest or for others,” he said. “Whoever was in [my] position as a committee chairman will try to find money from several sources to build a mosque.”

Sofyan and his lawyer said on Thursday that they had accepted the ruling and would not appeal.

This is not the first time Sofyan used the reason of building a mosque in his defense. In June, a judge sentenced him to serve a year and three months and fined him Rp 50 million for receiving a bribe in the scandal to choose the deputy senior governor of Bank Indonesia in 2004.