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Mungkin ini bukan oleh-oleh terindah yang dibawah oleh Wapres RI Boediono dari Australia setelah menerima gelar kehormatan. Betapa tidak, pihak istana merasa kaget dan sangat takut setelah membaca headline "Yudhoyono Abused Power" yang ditampilkan media Australia, The Age, sebagaimana yang dikutip dari detikcom.
Tanpa motif yang jelas, media Australia The Age tersebut menyuguhkan berita panas seputar penyalahgunaan kekuasaan oleh Yudhoyono selama periode jabatan presiden 2004-2009. Beberapa hal yang dianggap penyalahgunaan kekuasaan [Abused power] oleh Yudhoyono tersebut adalah sebagai berikut:
- Menurut sumber-sumber diplomat yang kemudian dibocorkan Wikileaks, pada Desember 2004 memerintahkan Hendarman Supandji, waktu itu Jaksa Agung Tindak Pidana Khusus. menghentikan penyidikan kasus korupsi yang melibatkan Taufik Kiemas, suami mantan presiden Megawati.
- Yudhoyono pernah memerintahkan Kepala BIN Syamsir Siregar untuk memata-matai Menteri Hukum dan Hak Asasi Yusril Ihza Mahendra. “Pengintaian dilakukan saat Menteri Yusril melakukan perjalanan rahasia ke Singapore untuk menemui seorang pebisnis Cina”.
- Dari beberapa dokumen yang dibocorkan wikileaks juga menyebutkan bahwa kemenangan yudhoyono juga tidak didukung oleh kekuatan politik. Belum lagi tuduhan kepada ibu negara Ani Yudhoyono yang sering memanfaatkan posisinya untuk mendapatkan uang. Sangat menyakitkan!
The president reportedly also got BIN to spy on rival presidential candidates. This practice appears to have begun while Yudhoyono was serving as co-ordinating minister of political and security affairs in former president Megawati’s government. He directed the intelligence service to report on former army commander and Golkar presidential candidate Wiranto. Subsequently, at a meeting of Yudhoyono’s cabinet, BIN chief Syamsir characterised Wiranto as a “terrorist mastermind.”Bukan hanya Yudhoyono, bocoran wikileaks yang dilansir oleh The Age ini juga membuka kecurangan Jusuf Kalla dalam melakukan politik uang.
Through his own military contacts Wiranto learnt that he was the subject of “derogatory” BIN reports, but when he complained he was told by presidential adviser TB Silalahi that no such reports existed.
The leaked US embassy cables are ambiguous on the question of whether Yudhoyono has been personally engaged in corruption. However, US diplomats reported that at a 2006 meeting with the chairman of his own Democratic Party, Yudhoyono “bemoaned his own failure to date to establish himself in business matters,” apparently feeling “he needed to ‘catch up’ … [and] wanted to ensure he left a sizeable legacy for his children.”
In the course of investigating the President’s private, political and business interests, American diplomats noted alleged links between Yudhoyono and Chinese-Indonesian businessmen, most notably Tomy Winata, an alleged underworld figure and member of the “Gang of Nine” or “Nine Dragons,” a leading gambling syndicate.
In 2006, Agung Laksono, now Yudhoyono’s Co-ordinating Minister for People’s Welfare, told US embassy officers that TB Silalahi “functioned as a middleman, relaying funds from Winata to Yudhoyono, protecting the president from the potential liabilities that could arise if Yudhoyono were to deal with Tomy directly.”
Tomy Winata reportedly also used prominent entrepreneur Muhammad Lutfi as a channel of funding to Yudhoyono. Yudhoyono appointed Lutfi chairman of Indonesia’s Investment Co-ordinating Board.
Senior State Intelligence Agency official Yahya Asagaf also told the US embassy Tomy Winata was trying to cultivate influence by using a senior presidential aide as his channel to first lady Kristiani Herawati.
Yudhoyono’s wife and relatives also feature prominently in the US embassy’s political reporting, with American diplomats highlighting the efforts of the president’s family “particularly first lady Kristiani Herawati …to profit financially from its political position.”
Dikutip dari TempoInteraktif dan AsiaSentinel
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