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<cite style="display: block; font-style: normal; font-size: 10px; margin: 4px 0px; ">Picture for illustration purposes only.</cite> He asked her for her personal phone number and she thought it was for work-related matters. After she gave him the number, he allegedly started calling her asking her to be his friend, to go out on dates and even to have sex with him.
He continued his advances even after she pointed out to him that he is a married man. This continued for about eight months between September 2011 and May 2012. Finally, the woman, a dental assistant working for one of the dental clinics under Pacific Healthcare in The Paragon, Orchard Road, decided to file a sexual harassment suit.
Ms Mardiana Sarifudin, 31, who has worked with Pacific Healthcare Specialist Centre since 2009, is seeking $250,000 in compensation through the High Court. She claimed that she took the matter to court as her company had ignored her complaints.
She is suing Mr Benny Kwan, Pacific Healthcare Specialist Services (PHSS), and its parent company, Pacific Healthcare Holdings Ltd (PHH), for failing to protect her and ensuring a harassment-free workplace.
She is accusing Mr Kwan of sexually harassing her at the workplace, and is also seeking a court injunction against Mr Kwan to stop him contacting her by phone or other means. Mr Kwan, a non-executive director, is defended by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh of Drew & Napier. He is denying the claims.
He said in a statement that he had told the PHH board the allegations were "frivolous and baseless", The Straits Times reported. Mr Kwan also assured shareholders that he “will not allow this or any other development” from hindering him in discharging duties.
Ms Mardiana is represented by Hoh Law Corporation lawyers Hoh Chin Cha and Margaret Neo. In court papers filed, the dental nurse said that Mr Kwan would call her three to five times a day, to try to ask her out for coffee, meals and massages. She rejected all the requests.
Feeling repulsed by his unprofessional attitude and humiliated by his advances, she even blocked incoming calls from him. Even then, he reportedly continued to find ways to get close to her by talking to her at the clinic.
She removed the blocking service after a while when she thought he had given up, but the director started telling her that he had sexual cravings for her and kept asking her to go on a rendezvous with him overseas. He even assured her that he would be careful about it and that no one would find out.
Ms Mardiana said she once blocked 43 phone calls from him between February and April this year. He called her six times in June this year, with each call lasting from 51 seconds to about 10 minutes. She said these have taken a toll on her health; she slept poorly, had frequent headaches and developed an anxiety disorder and mild depression.
She also found it difficult to focus on her work. These have significantly affected her relationship with her fiance and relatives. She had told Mr Kwan that she is getting married soon. She also filed complaints to the human resource department, which organised a meeting with her, but it did not take any disciplinary action. That was when she decided to call the police.
She is seeking compensation for the medical and transport expenses amounting up to $1,200 and the potential loss of income as the alleged circumstances have also put her job in jeopardy, she said.
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Headlines | Wed, April 02 2008, 1:56 AM
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The government is continuing attempts to find 23 bad debtors of the Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) fund, despite the fact some of them have escaped criminal investigations due to a lack of evidence.
"The government is pursuing both criminal and civil procedures to handle debtors who have yet to fulfill their obligations," Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati announced Tuesday at a plenary session at the House of Representatives.
Mulyani was reading out President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's response to the House's second query into the government's efforts to resolve the BLBI scandal.
The government said it had imposed travel bans on eight of the debtors - Omar Putihrai and Lidia Muchtar (of Bank Tamara), Adisaputra Januardy and James Januardy (Bank Namura), Atang Latief (Bank Bira), Ulung Bursa (Bank Lautan Berlian), Marimutu Sinivasan (Bank Putera Multikarsa) and Agus Anwar (Bank Istismarat and Bank Pelita) - some of whom are believed to have already fled the country.
The government will also seize and auction the debtors' assets this year and has threatened to detain them if they fail to cooperate.
"We hope these measures will effectively force the debtors to fulfill their obligations immediately," Mulyani said.
Police and state prosecutors had launched investigations into alleged embezzlement involving 16 banks, but lacked evidence to charge 12 of them.
The Finance Ministry had been mandated, however, to pursue civil lawsuits against the owners of the 12 banks to recover state assets, Mulyani said.
The debtors are Santoso Sumali (Bank Metropolitan), Trijono Gondokusumo (Bank Putra Surya Perkasa), Santoso Sumali (Bank Bahari), Hengky Wijaya (Bank Tata), David Nusa Wijaya and Tarunodjojo (Bank Umum Servitia), I Made Sudiarta and I Gede Darmawan (Bank Aken), Dewanto Kurniawan, Royanto Kurniawan, Leo Polisa, Rasjim Wiraatmadja (Bank Deka), Hindarto Tantular and Anton Tantular (Bank Central Dagang), Andri Tedjadharma, PT Centris Mekarlestari, Prasetyo Utomo and Paul Banuara Silalahi (Bank Centris), Kwan Benny Ahadi (Bank Orient), Sjamsul Nursalim (Bank Dewa Rutji) and Kaharudin Ongko (Bank Arya Panduartha).
The court sentenced Setiawan Harjono and Hendrawan Harjono from Bank Aspac to six months and one year in prison respectively.
The administration has also filed case reviews to have the Supreme Court overturn its verdicts that were in favor of debtors, including Fadel Muhamad of Bank Intan.
The Supreme Court ruled the government pay some Rp 23.5 billion to Fadel, who is the Gorontalo governor. The government said despite the court ruling, Fadel's debt to the state amounting to Rp 88.15 billion still stands.
Lawmaker Yuddy Chrisnandi of the Golkar Party faction hailed the administration for providing a more detailed explanation than its previous response at the plenary session Feb. 12 (which the House rejected). Chrisnandi regretted, however, the government's failure to set a deadline for the asset recovery. (alf)
