June 24, 2011
Indonesia’s most controversial mayor, Diani Budiarto, 56, has found himself at the center of a new scandal — taking a teenager as his fourth wife.
The Bogor mayor, who continues to thumb his nose at Indonesian law by refusing to allow the GKI Yasmin church to reopen, remains married to three other woman, including his first wife, Fauziah, who is in hospital.
Even though Law No 10/1983 strictly forbids civil servants from practicing polygamy, Bogor municipal spokesman Asep Firdaus said Diani had not broken any rules by marrying the 19-year-old.
“Even though he is a mayor, he retired as a civil servant four months ago,” Asep was quoted as saying by news portal Detik.com. “Hence, he did not violate Law No 10/1083. Nothing is wrong, the woman is an adult and they got married legally,” he claimed.
That was news to Irianto, head of Bogor-based nongovernmental organization the Law Monitoring Front (BMH).
He alleged that Diani had had breached the law because he got married “without the permission of his [other] wives.”
Diani is serving his second term as the mayor of Bogor. He was reelected in 2009 and received support from a number of parties, including the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Golkar and the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).
(x the JG)
za 25 jun 2011 - 8:57