JAKARTA. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned on Tuesday Riau Governor Annas Maamun in its investigation into alleged graft in the submission of revisions to 2014 Riau forest-conversion permits at the Forestry Ministry.

“He was questioned as a witness for suspect GM [Gulat Manurung],” KPK spokesman Priharsa Nugraha told reporters.

Annas, who declined to comment on the probe, is being detained at the antigraft commission’s detention center inside the military prison facility at Guntur, South Jakarta.

Gulat, chairman of the Riau branch of the Indonesian Oil Palm Farmers Association (Apkasindo), is suspected of having bribed Annas for the issuance of land-conversion permits in a protected forest in Riau.

Besides Annas, three others — PT Sinar Bahana Mulya legal administrative officer Nuryani Dewi Ningrum, and two cashiers at PT Ayu Masagung Money Changer, identified as Tati and Tety YS — have been questioned as witnesses in the case.

Editor: Barratut Taqiyyah Rafie