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Comments: Most corrupt country title not surprising: ICW
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strong>Oct. 16, Online
Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Emerson Yuntho said on Thursday that his group was not surprised that the United States-based Gallup polling company had named Indonesia the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia.
Your comments:
Indonesia needs to rule for a 10-year minimum prison sentence for corruption offenses. Give the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and courts tough powers to take the properties and assets of people convicted of corruption.
Indonesia's economy has hit a wall again since 2013 with the rupiah, and even exports, falling. There are many officials plundering the state at every level. It is truly a disgusting spectacle.
Lasem Benny
The real problem is not just the corruption, but the efforts to legalize and trivialize it. This is truly heart-wrenching for Indonesia because it will probably take not just years but generations before any real efforts are made to clean it up. It can be done practically overnight but nobody wants to do it and that speaks volumes.
What is badly needed is changes to the law and administrations that run them. We need to bring the cameras into courtrooms and show the names and faces of judges and those empowered to give 'remissions'. We need to take the decision-making process out of judges' hands and make certain sentences mandatory.
Pauloh
If you look at the tender process for some mega-infrastructure projects and the number of brokers seeking 'processing fees' for the tender committee you would be shocked.
It makes you realize that asking for 5 percent of a US$3 billion project, say for a seaport, an airport or tolled highway, is actually asking for $150 million in 'processing fees' ' there are very seriously rich people in Indonesia making such fees.
Malam
SBY must be proud of his accomplishments. The KPK powers are scaled back. His party is constantly subject to corruption cases.
Abdul Malik
Nobody has been interested in changing the laws or establishing any precedent as the lawmakers would then be subject to those laws.
I am sure that this matter is of significant concern to the Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo administration, however, in saying that, we are naive if we think that it can be achieved overnight; however every step forward is a milestone in itself.
Bay V
