An investigation by the internal supervision agency within Indonesia's police force has found that a Papua police officer had paid bribes to 33 police officials, including the Papua provincial chief.
The Jakarta Post reports that Labora Sitorus is alleged to have paid the bribes, totalling around 1 million US dollars, to protect his illegal logging and fuel-smuggling businesses.
The chairperson of Indonesian Police Watch, Neta Pane, said that Labora had wired and personally handed the money to officials within the Papua and the national police between January 2012 and March 2013.
Neta says the officer also bribed a number of police officials, including the Papua police chief, who was paid on at least five occasions.
However the IPW chair has refused to say whether the Papua Police chief in question was Tito Karnavian, whose tenure started in September 2012, or his predecessor Bigman Lumban Tobing.
