Jakarta – City Council speaker Prasetyo Edi Marsudi refused on Thursday to give comment on a recorded conversation relating to the reclamation projects in Jakarta Bay in which his name was mentioned.
"They mentioned my name, but that's not my voice. So, [you should] ask them," Prasetyo, an Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician, said as quoted by kompas.com.
The wiretapped conversation, which was played during a hearing at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Wednesday, contained a conversion between councilor Muhammad Sanusi and Syaiful Zuhri, alias Pupung, the manager of reclamation project developer PT Agung Sedayu Group.
In the conversation, which took place on March 17, Pupung allegedly promised to give the councilors money if they attended a plenary meeting to approve draft bylaws on the reclamation project.
But Sanusi, a politician from Gerindra Party, urged Pupung not to give the money to Prasetyo, saying that the later would not distribute the money fairly. Prasetyo denied knowing Pupung. "You may ask Sanusi," he added.
Sanusi and the president director of another developer PT Agung Podomoro Land, Ariesman Widjaja, were arrested in April.