Summary
• Earlier this year, the former communications minister was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges.
• Jokowi’s ministers of social affairs and fisheries were imprisoned in 2021.
Indonesia’s former agriculture minister has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption.
According to the main news agency in the country, The Jakarta Post, the former minister of agriculture Syahrul Yasin Limpo was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for corruption that involved traveling on private planes and buying his wife’s jewelry.
Prosecutors said Limpo stole more than 44 billion rupiah ($2.72 million) from Agriculture Ministry to pay for his personal expenses.
Limpo was also fined 300 million rupiah and ordered to pay nearly 14.6 billion rupiah in compensation, chief magistrate Rianto Adam Pontoh said, as reported by the newspaper.
Television footage after the verdict showed Limpo speaking to reporters. He denied wrongdoing although he said he respected the court’s decision, adding that the decision was “the result of my work.”
Two other defendants in the case, who were senior officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, were each sentenced to four years in prison. Limpo was the sixth minister in President Joko Widodo’s cabinet to face corruption charges.
Earlier this year, the former communications minister was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges. Jokowi’s ministers of social affairs and fisheries were imprisoned in 2021.
