JAKARTA, Indonesia—An Indonesian court sentenced a political power broker to 15 years in prison Tuesday for his role in one of country’s biggest-ever graft scandals, a significant win for the country’s anticorruption agency, which has survived repeated efforts to limit its reach.
Setya Novanto, the former speaker of parliament and a key member of President Joko Widodo’s coalition government, sat quietly at Jakarta’s Corruption Court as a panel of judges ruled that he personally had received $7.3 million from a scheme to skim...