[1] In January 2011, Sudjadnan was charged in court for unlawfully authorizing fund disbursement in 2003 to Indonesian Embassy in Singapore when he was Secretary General of the DFA.
He was released in October 2011 and received another separate court verdict in 2014 for he was responsible in the DFA budget misappropriation in 2004–2005, for which he served some 20 months in Sukamiskin prison.
[1] His time in Australia coincided with the Tampa affair, when the Australian Government denied permission to a Norwegian vessel to unload rescued asylum seekers at Christmas Island.
[4] He served in the role for four years, until the end of 2005, and also acted as Senior Official Meeting Leader for both the Asia Africa Summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
[9] In February 2012 the KPK named him a suspect in a second case, alleging that he was responsible for budget misappropriations committed by organizing committees of 16 international events organised by the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2004 and 2005, causing losses to the state of approximately US$ 1,2 million.
During the court proceeding he claimed that one of the international conference in which he proudly took leading role, was in the Tsunami Summit, January 5 - 6, 2005 that had yielded in sum of US$ 4.3 billion (approx.
The former Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla who appeared during the court proceeding in April 2014 testified that Sudjadnan as Secretary General of DFA, acted under an emergency situation to approve the Summit budget that should not be charged as committing corruption.