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| Posted By: JJ Amstrong Sembiring Posted On: Mar 16, 2004 Views: 2007 | TPJ reported for ´misappropriation´ TPJ reported for ´misappropriation´ City News, Tuesday, April 29, 2003 The Jakarta Post,Jakarta Jakarta : British tp water operator Thames PAM Jaya (TPJ) has been reported to the police by one of its customers, Harun Al Rasyid, a professor of administrative law at the University of indonesia, over the alleged mis-appropriation of Rp 5,000 (about 56 U.S. cents). "We filed a report to the police today for the offensive act committed by TPJ against our client as well as misappropriation, " said JJ Amstrong Sembiring, one of harun´s lawyers and member of a non-governmental organization styling itself the Jakarta Tap Water Consumers Community (Komparta). Amstrong said the offensive act took the form of a letter from the firm in January 2000 for failing to pay his November 1999 water bill before the deadline. Harun paid the fine, but later discovered that he had paid on Nov. 15, 1999, before payment was actually due. Harun then sent a letter to ask the firm to return the money, but has received no response so far. "That´ whya our client is filing a refort on the misappropriation comitted by the firm through its failure to return the money to our clien, " said Amstrong. ---JP |