Kin of Indonesian president in corruption trial

Aulia and the three other suspects, Bun Bunan Hutapea, Maman Soemantri and Aslim Tadjuddin,  - all former BI deputy governors, would face the judges together and would be tried for the same crime.

The trial will be presided by Judge Mansyurdin Chaniago, who will be assisted by judges Moerdiono, Hendra Yospin, Slamet Subagyo and Anwar. At least 13 lawyers are reported to defend the four suspects.

 The four were charged for their alleged involvement in the embezzling of Rp 100 billion (US$8.8 million) from BI's Indonesian Banking Development Foundation (YPPI) in 2003. The money was allegedly misappropriated to smoothen the political settlement of a previous massive loan scandal involving Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) funds, and also to push through the approval of an amendment to the BI law.

The case has brought several BI top names and lawmakers to time service in jail. Former BI governor Burhanuddin Abdullah has been sentenced to five years in prison late last year for his role in dealing out the money, which was neither recorded in the accounts at the BI or YPPI.

Two former top officials of the bank Oey Hoey Tiong and Rusli Simanjuntak were each sentenced to four years jail in October last year in the same case. Lawmakers Hamka Yandhu and Antony Zeidra Abidin were sentenced to three and four-and-a half years in jail respectively last month for receiving bribes from the BI fund.