Hasyim Widhiarto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 12/30/2009 8:35 PM | Jakarta
Bank Indonesia (BI) announced Wednesday that Prita Mulyasari had cashed in Rp 615,562,043 (US$65 249.5766) in a form of coins and small-denomination bills from the public to help her paying fine after losing civil libel suit against Omni International Hospital.
”Today, we have transferred the money to Ibu Prita's Bank Mandiri account,” Edi Siswanto, BI’s money circulation director, told reporters.
It had taken six days, six coin-counting machines and 86 officers – 70 from BI and 16 from Bank Mandiri – to count all the money donated, Irwin Azwir, the BI senior cashier who is in charge of the counting, said.
”We had to manually separate the coins according to their denomination and year of issuance first before counting them using the machine,” he said.
The Coins for Prita movement began early this month after a local court fined Prita Rp 204 million (US$21,600) for defaming Omni International Hospital . A group of Prita's supporters used the social networking site Facebook and set up www.koinkeadilan.com to collect donations from the public.
Despite losing in the civil suit, Prita was acquitted of libel charges on Tuesday in the criminal lawsuit filed by Omni.
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