An Indonesian court today sentenced a provincial governor to four years in prison for involvement in bribing a judge over an election dispute.

Judges at the Jakarta anti-corruption court found Banten governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah, Indonesia’s first female provincial head, guilty of taking part in bribing a former Constitutional Court judge, Akil Mochtar.

The ruling said the bribe was intended to persuade the Constitutional Court to order repeat elections, after a candidate that Chosiyah had supported lost a vote for district chief.

Mochtar, who resigned from the court last year after he was arrested in the case, was sentenced to life in prison in June for corruption and money laundering.

The governor’s brother and a politician were sentenced in the same case to five years and four years in prison respectively.     

Indonesia ranked 114th out of 177 countries in the 2013 corruption perception index released by Transparency International, with number one being perceived as the least corrupt.

- dpa