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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.
Continue Reading »Good news that KPK is still much alive without Antasari Azhar. The KPK directors seems strongly wanted to show this symbolic gesture to the public: that KPK is as strong and commited as ever to eradicate corruption with or without Antasari Azhar. The Jakarta Post reports:
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named former Director of East Java Development Bank (BPD) Umar Syarifuddin as suspect for allegedly embezzling Rp 37 billion (US$3.5 million) of the bank’s money in 2003-2004.
“We have found a suspect in an alleged embezzlement at BPD. Former bank’s director US has been declared suspect few days ago,” KPK deputy chairman for enforcement Bibit Samad Riantor told reporters during a hearing with commission III of legal issues at the House of Representatives on Thursday.
He said the suspect had illegally gathered Rp 37 billion from 33 BPD branches in the province during 2003-2004 that kept in his personal account.
“He created “(dubious) capital and taxes fees” to gather the money for his personal benefit,” he said.
This was the second case the commission announced suspects in the absence of its chairman Antasari Azhar who is now detained by the Jakarta Police as a suspect in a murder case.
Continue Reading »The Corruption Eradication Commision (KPK) named on Wednesday former Senior Deputy Governor of the central bank Aulia Pohan–the besan of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono– as the new suspect in the case of Bank Indonesia fund missappropriation.
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Besan means in-law relationship among the parents of both bride and grooms.





