Pin It BeritaSatu Media Holdings  Prosecutors Recommend Five
Years Jail for Hartati  SP/Erwin Cristianson  Prosecutors on
Monday recommended that Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court judges
sentence businesswoman Sri Hartati Murdaya Poo to five years in
jail for bribery.  “We recommend that the defendant, Siti
Hartati Murdaya, be declared guilty of corruption and sentenced
to five years in jail and a fine of Rp 200 million or an
additional four months in jail,” prosecutor Edy Hartoyo told the
court.  Hartati, a close aide of President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, was named a graft suspect by the Corruption
Eradication Commission (KPK) in August.  She is said to have
offered Rp 3 billion ($313,000) in kickbacks to Amran Batalipu,
the former head of Central Sulawesi’s Buol district, in exchange
for land concessions for her oil palm plantation companies,
Hardaya Inti Plantation and Cipta Cakra  Hartati initially
claimed that the money was a donation, but later said she was
extorted by Amran.  Reading out the 300-page thic