President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a letter to the Jakarta police headquarters containing his replies to written questions put to him by police investigators on Wednesday in connection with his defamation report against former House of Representatives deputy speaker Zaenal Ma`arif, a minister said.
"The president has given his written answers to the police`s questions so he does not need to go to the Jakarta Police Headquarters for the purpose," Minister/State Secretary Hatta Rajasa said at the presidential office on Thursday.
But Hatta refused to say how many questions from the police were answered by the president.
"I am not sure how many questions were answered by the president because it absolutely has nothing to do with governmental affairs," he said.
Asked if the president had written his replies after a scheduled presentation to the cabinet by the National Resilience Institute (Lemhanas) on Thursday morning was postponed, Hatta said he (the president) had not. He explained the Lemhanas presentation was rescheduled because many cabinet members were unable to attend Thursday morning`s session.
"It would be too speculative for me to say so. What matters is that the president has filed his report, meaning that the mechanism has been set in motion," the state secretary said.
President Yudhoyono on Sunday (July 29) reported House of Representatives (DPR) Deputy Speaker Zaenal Ma`arif to the Jakarta Metropolitan Police for defamation.
Yudhoyono said Zaenal had spread a lie by asserting that he (Yudhoyono) was already married when he enrolled at the Military Academy in 1973. (*)
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