Donald Trump was running for the US presidency when he personally raised with senior Indonesian politicians the need to have a toll road completed in Indonesia to benefit a massive new resort development in which he later invested.
Key points:
- Trump was in negotiations with Indonesian business partner Hary Tanoe over mega-resort development on Java
- Politician estimates Mr Trump and Mr Tanoe have already tripled their value of the resort land
- Human Rights Watch says it is “not appropriate” for any business to ask Government to pay for toll road into property
A senior Indonesian politician who met Mr Trump in New York in 2015 has revealed to Four Corners that he made clear the project would only go ahead if the toll road was completed.
“He was saying that it’s impossible without the toll road,” Fadli Zon, the deputy speaker of Indonesia’s Parliament, said.
Mr Zon, together with the speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Setya Novanto, met with then presidential-hopeful Mr Trump in September 2015 during the presidential primary campaign at Trump Tower in New York.
The meeting, unauthorised by the Indonesian Government, was held with the direct assistance of Mr Trump’s new Indonesian business partner, Hary Tanoesoedibjo, known as Hary Tanoe.
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