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Tue, October 13, 2015

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Lawmakers representing 74 countries concluded the sixth Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) conference on Thursday with a call for the UN to establish an international court to prosecute the perpetrators of grand corruption.

The call was made as part of the 20-point Yogyakarta Declaration, which was endorsed by participants of the three-day conference, held in Yogyakarta since Tuesday.

'€œ[We] recommend that the UN consider the establishment of a new UN Convention against Corruption [UNCAC] protocol to establish an international court on corruption for the prosecution of perpetrators and collaborators of grand corruption,'€ GOPAC vice chair Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said in the final session of the conference.

During the conference, participants also anonymously elected GOPAC Indonesia chairman and House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon as the chair of GOPAC'€™s executive committee for the 2015 to 2017 period, replacing Mexican politician Ricardo Garcia Cervantes.

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Given that the GOPAC leader, Fadli has declared his full support for corruption and increased his efforts to find ways to make corruption legal, I demand he be removed from a body that sounds like it had good intentions until Fadli appeared and stuffed up the show. Get rid of the loser without delay and save yourself from international ridicule when my headline story appears in the Washington Times tomorrow morning.

Chiko Zu

'€œGrand corruption refers to corruption that takes place in the highest levels of government, where policies and rules are formulated and executive decisions are made.'€

If the UN actually incorporated this regulation, the Indonesian government would cease to exist!

And as the '€œlawmakers'€ are holding hands wearing their US$140,000 wrist watches, the '€œlaw enforcers'€ (police) are holding out their hands accepting '€œgratuities'€.

Willo

'€œHouse of Representatives Deputy Speaker Fadli Zon has declared corruption the '€˜oil'€™ that keeps the country running, claiming that graft and economic growth go hand-in-hand.

'€œWhich would you rather have: No corruption and no development, or a little corruption and development?'€ Fadli, from the Gerindra Party, said at a discussion in Jakarta on Saturday as quoted by detik.com.

'€œIn many developing countries, corruption is the oil that keeps development going,'€ he said.

'€œHe also appeared to condone the massive corruption committed by officials in the New Order regime of the late strongman Soeharto, saying their embezzlement of non-discretionary funds from the state budget was never considered corruption back then, but that today such an act would be considered a crime.

'€œ'€˜Back then we had [embezzlement] but at least we had growth. Roads were built and so on,'€™ Fadli said. '€˜Now, though, we have a lot of '€˜corruption'€™ but no growth.'€™'€

The solution, he said, was to find ways to close the loopholes such that acts that would currently be considered graft became permissible.'€

Yes I can see now why Fadli was elected as president of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC). What a perfect choice; someone who will find ways to close the loopholes so that acts that would currently be considered graft became permissible.

CZ

I'€™m still laughing from this news. Seriously? The DPR has no members inside it credible enough to even be in an anti-corruption organization.

Now this is the biggest joke ever! Give me back my tax money that you used for your holiday trip to the US East and West Coast! These so called international lawmakers must have been drunk when they elected a lunatic from the useless, worthless, dysfunctional and ungrateful DPR.

Fadli, haven'€™t you noticed or were you not aware? Your useless institution has recently proposed an idea to disband the KPK after 12 years of service, further weakening the only effective anticorruption bureau this country has ever had. Why don'€™t you take a look at yourself in the mirror and see if you'€™re really worthy of being elected to lead this GOPAC?

Simba

Great and Congrats Mr. Fadli Zon!

Your role representing the Indonesian parliament has been globally recognized.

We do hope for the increasing role of the DPR in combating corruption through your presence as a leader of GOPAC.

Salim Bambang

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