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View all search resultsIsland in focus: 1,000 attend Makassar antigraft fiesta
About 1,000 youths and activists attended an anticorruption festival organized by the South Sulawesi Anti-Corruption Society (Mars) at Rotterdam Fort in Makassar on Saturday night
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bout 1,000 youths and activists attended an anticorruption festival organized by the South Sulawesi Anti-Corruption Society (Mars) at Rotterdam Fort in Makassar on Saturday night.
Among the attendees was the suspended chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Abraham Samad, secretary-general of Transparency International Indonesia Dadang Trisasongko, scholar of Hasanuddin University Alwy Rahman and professor Qashim Mathar of the Alauddin State Islamic University.
Abraham, who is a native of Makassar, read a poem a poem titled 'Darah Daging Korupsi' (corruption flesh and blood).
'Let's rise to free our oppressed people. Corruption is going crazy, becoming flesh and blood in the bodies of bureaucracy,' read a verse of Abraham's poem.
KPK suspended deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto, who was in Makassar since Thursday and planned to attend the festival, left the city on Saturday morning as a result of other affairs.
