Indonesia fights corruption with people power
Posted on November 7, 2009
Totally agree with what BBC says, we, Indonesians, fight corruption with people power. In fact, whatever we want our government to change or to do we have to do it with people power i.e. street protests. The bigger the better. We cannot expect any change coming from the heart and soul of government officials whose only concern is how to fill their pocket with illegal money as fast as possible before getting retired.
In Indonesia public protests, secret recordings and an alleged plot among senior law enforcement officials to undermine the anti-corruption agency have transfixed the country.
Ask any Indonesian about corruption and chances are they will tell you that at some point in their lives they have had to deal with it.
Whether it is paying a bribe to get out of a traffic fine or slipping some extra cash to an official at the immigration office, corruption, many here say, is unfortunately a way of life – it is in the culture.
It is a depressing fact, but a reality that Indonesians have become used to.
But now something has changed.
Fed up and frustrated with the levels of graft within the institutions that are charged with the responsibility of protecting them, Indonesians have taken to the streets in what is being called one of the grandest showings of people power since the days of the 1998 Reformasi movement.
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Witnessing all the rotten, ultimately debasing scandals and conspiracy, I just pray may God protect me and this nation from the consequences of such evil wrongdoings and from becoming part of that systemically-diabolical bureaucracy. While there’re many malnutrition-ridden infants, unemployed people desperately seeking jobs, homeless people, and tons of other issues this new government has to tackle, how could those damn officials only think of themselves and how to secure their positions? No wonder disasters always hit this nation perpetually. Only God knows what those cunning officials must deserve? Flogging, being skinned alive, get decapitated with rusty guillotine? Hmm, all of them combined can’t even make them compensate all these bedlams
Setuju bgt niiihhhh………..!!!!!!!!
It may be like water gate scandal. What a pity of Indonesian people if this scandal is not completely cleared.
Setuju, kita gulirkan reformasi hukum secara tuntas !!
Setuju banget mas!!!!
Fight against corruption will be effective if supported by political power at the top level, if not then this is how the results. This is a lesson for us to be more selective in choosing a leader, not just by his appearance and image – that may have been engineered in such a way-, but more on the quality of that person.
Gooo gooo action people
Yess ! People power is getting bigger now. Lets see usman’s facebook, this is seem like a new movement of media
great move fighting corruption
Let’go for supporting kpk..