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Monday, July 22, 2013
Chevron saw the second of its managers in Indonesia jailed. According to reports out of the country, an anti-corruption court jailed a second employee of Chevron’s local subsidiary. The two Indonesian employees were each jailed for two years over a project to decontaminate 28 plots of land, which prosecutors argued was a fake project and had caused losses to the state.
On July 18 the court sentenced manager Endah Rumbiyanti for “failing to carry out her obligations,” a lapse which it said unfairly benefited two contractors. The previous day the court jailed another manager, Kukuh Kertasafari, for poor oversight of the project.
The court’s decision will be appealed to a higher anti-corruption court and international arbitration is being considered. Prosecutors from the attorney-general’s office argued that the two companies which were contracted to carry out the clean-up had no qualifications or permits.
They also said the land was never contaminated in any case, and the project had cost the state millions of dollars.
Chevron denies the accusations and said the clean-up project had been given government approval before it began.
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