The Asahan Development Authority, which supervises the biggest Indonesian power plant and aluminum project funded by official Japanese assistance, was found Wednesday on a list of donors to one of the charitable foundations former President Suharto is charged with embezzling from.
It is listed as having provided about 874 million rupiah ($106,000 at current rates) to Yayasan (Foundation) Supersemar.
According to Nobuo Hazeyama, chief representative at the Jakarta representative office of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the project has received more than 250 billion yen in loans from Japan.
Although Hazeyama insisted the Japanese money has not been given to the authority directly, critics of Japan's support for the Suharto regime strongly suggested Japanese taxpayers' money may have been misused.