saco-indonesia.com, Kepolisian Daerah Sumatera Utara telah menahan FD, adik Bupati Nias Selatan Idealisman Dachi. FD diduga telah terlibat korupsi pengalihan lahan untuk fasilitas umum menjadi lokasi Balai Benih Induk.
"Mulai Senin pukul 20.00 WIB malam , FD telah resmi kami tahan," kata Direktur Reskrim Khusus Polda Sumut Kombes Pol Dono Indarto di Medan, Senin (23/12). Demikian dilansir dari Antara.
Penahanan tersebut juga merupakan kelanjutan proses penyidikan 1atas kasus dugaan korupsi tersebut setelah penahanan Sekdakab Nias Selatan AL dan Asisten I Pemkab Nias Selatan FS. FD diduga juga ikut serta dalam mengalihkan proyek pengadaan lahan untuk fasilitas umum tersebut menjadi Lahan Balai Benih Induk (BBI).
Dugaan korupsi tersebut telah berawal ketika Pemkab Nias Selatan menganggarkan dana Rp 10 miliar dari APBD tahun 2012 guna pembelian lahan yang diperuntukan perkantoran dan fasilitas umum.
Namun, anggaran untuk pengadaan fasilitas umum tersebut telah dialihkan menjadi pengadaan Balai Benih Induk dan menyerahkan pemegang proyek kepada FD. Akibat kebijakan tersebut, negara diperkirakan telah mengalami kerugian sekitar Rp9,4 miliar.
"Kami juga masih harus mendalami dan mengembangkan penyidikan. Jika ditemukan bukti, siapapun kita lakukan tindakan sama sesuai hukum," katanya.
Direktorat Reskrim Khusus Polda Sumut menahan Sekdakab Nias Selatan AL dan Asisten I Pemkab Nias Selatan FS pada Kamis (19/12).
Nepal’s Young Men, Lost to Migration, Then a Quake
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Many bodies prepared for cremation last week in Kathmandu were of young men from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas.Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times
KATHMANDU, Nepal — When the dense pillar of smoke from cremations by the Bagmati River was thinning late last week, the bodies were all coming from Gongabu, a common stopover for Nepali migrant workers headed overseas, and they were all of young men.
Hindu custom dictates that funeral pyres should be lighted by the oldest son of the deceased, but these men were too young to have sons, so they were burned by their brothers or fathers. Sukla Lal, a maize farmer, made a 14-hour journey by bus to retrieve the body of his 19-year-old son, who had been on his way to the Persian Gulf to work as a laborer.
“He wanted to live in the countryside, but he was compelled to leave by poverty,” Mr. Lal said, gazing ahead steadily as his son’s remains smoldered. “He told me, ‘You can live on your land, and I will come up with money, and we will have a happy family.’ ”
Weeks will pass before the authorities can give a complete accounting of who died in the April 25 earthquake, but it is already clear that Nepal cannot afford the losses. The countryside was largely stripped of its healthy young men even before the quake, as they migrated in great waves — 1,500 a day by some estimates — to work as laborers in India, Malaysia or one of the gulf nations, leaving many small communities populated only by elderly parents, women and children. Economists say that at some times of the year, one-quarter of Nepal’s population is working outside the country.