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ct. 5, p2

The arrest of Tubagus Chaeri Wardhana, the brother of Banten Governor Ratu Atut Chosiyah, on bribery charges could be the beginning of the end of the family'€™s political stranglehold on the province.

Only a day after his arrest on Wednesday night, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) slapped a travel ban on Ratu Atut, who has led Banten for nearly a decade and is widely known to have built one of the most powerful local political dynasties in the country after the introduction of direct local election in 2004.

Your comments:

Hogging power is a form of corruption. For all it'€™s worth, it seems the stranglehold in Banten is vulgar and shameful.

Asbok

Democracy is the form of government we have. But its growth and survival and benefit to all citizens must be free of all forms of corruption.

The citizens of the young democracy must prosecute all forms of corruption to build a fair and stable government for a strong and worthwhile state.

Hence eradicating the cancers of democracy like nepotism, conflict of interest, cronyism and financial corruption, requires constant vigilance plus the full weight of the law.

With convictions and sentences that fit the crimes. As so called '€œWhite collar'€ crimes for too long have been excused as the way things are done in Indonesia, these are not victimless crimes.

Their net effect eventually deprives the seemingly powerless members of population the quality of life and its benefits they so rightly deserve.   

Diggas