The Indonesian public will get access to the leaked documents of 200,000 shell companies owned by clients of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca early on Tuesday, with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( ICIJ ) set to disclose the data for the world to see.

Public access to the documents, dubbed the Panama Papers, will be opened on Monday at 2 p.m. US time or Tuesday at 1 a.m. Indonesian time at https://offshoreleaks.icij.org tempo.co reported on Monday.

However, not all among the 200,000 entities comprising 11.5 million documents will be made public,  ICIJ deputy director Marina Walker Guevara said.

"We will only release the most basic information of the company," Marina said as quoted by tempo.co on Monday.

The basic information will include the names of the companies and their shareholders; data of bank accounts, financial transactions, e-mails, passports, phone numbers, and other forms of correspondence related to individuals and the companies will not be published, Marina said.

Tempo journalists, the only ones from Indonesia, are among more than 100 journalists from 76 countries involved in the investigative reports on Panama Papers in the past year.

The names of 899 Indonesian are listed in the 2.6 terrabytes of leaked documents, Tempo found.

"We hope the public can help the probe because part of the access has been opened," Tempo Investigation Magazine managing editor Philipus Parera said.

According to reports by Tempo, Supreme Audit Agency ( BPK ) chair Harry Azhar Aziz was recorded as the sole director of Sheng Yue International Limited, a company established in the tax haven British Virgin Islands in 2010; Harry was serving as the chairman of the House of Representatives budgetary council at the time. Meanwhile, Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan was recorded as a director of Mayfair International Ltd, registered in the island country of Seychelles and established in 2006.

Both Harry and Luhut have denied involvement in the aforementioned companies.

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courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by The Jakarta post

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