The United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad Romahurmuziy had allegedly accepted bribes to get two people high ranking jobs at the religious affairs ministry.
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s anti-graft agency on Saturday named a prominent Islamist politician backing President Joko Widodo’s re-election campaign as a suspect in a bribery case, an investigator said.
Romahurmuziy was arrested on Friday, just weeks before legislative and presidential elections set for April 17, when Widodo will seek re-election. “This is the risk of becoming a spokesman for a coalition that wants to make Indonesia to be led by a nationalist, moderately religious leader,” he wrote in the letter.PPP, which controls 7% of parliament, is expected to canvas the conservative Muslim vote for Widodo, whose religious credentials have been attacked by opponents.
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