JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s deputy manpower minister was charged with extortion, anti-graft investigators said on Friday, after alleging the politician had benefited from illegal fees for the processing of safety permits.

The graft investigation was the first to implicate a member of President Prabowo Subianto’s cabinet. Prabowo, who was sworn in last October, has campaigned against corruption.

Deputy minister Immanuel Ebenezer, a member of Prabowo’s political party, was arrested along with 10 other people investigated for the case, who include officials with the manpower ministry and two employees of a training provider company, the anti-graft agency chief Setyo Budiyanto said at a press conference.

Immanuel, brought into the press conference wearing an orange vest, denied the extor

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