DENPASAR, KOMPAS.com - A staff member of the Bali High Prosecutor’s Office has been sacked for changing a judge’s ruling on a narcotic case. According to a source in the office on Sunday the staff member known by his initials as SRY changed the ruling for defendant from the Philippines, Steven Anthony Gamboa, from eight months in prison to only four months in jail and a fine of Rp3 million or four more months in jail if he failed to pay it.
"Actually the appeal decision of the National Civil Servants Administration has been issued a month ago in which he was dismissed as a state employee of the High Prosecutor Office," the source said.
He said although he had been sacked the employee concerned still continued working in the office as a temporary worker. "His status is not a permanent employee but temporary."
SRY faked the judge’s ruling in 2006 when the office was led by I Made Suratmaja. SRY’s action was known only after Gamboa was asked to stand as a witness in the case of IB Manuaba in the same case.
Due to SRY’s action Gamboa only served half of the sentence and on October 10, 2006 he was deported to his home country. Gamboa was involved in a narcotics party held in Vila Gajah, Canggu, Kuta, along with his friends. An ecstasy pill and 0.8 grams of meth had been confiscated from him.
