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View all search resultsThe public has cast doubt over whether the newly installed KPK leaders, chairman Comr. Gen. Firli Bahuri and his deputies will make a difference. Such pessimism, however, should not matter to them as the public has always set the bar very high in the war on corruption.
The KPK can only flourish where its independence is guaranteed. If it becomes answerable to the executive it is supposed to oversee, under the orders of government cronies chosen for political convenience, the notion that it could offer any real resistance to corruption would be laughable. Laughable, that is, were the inevitable impact on Indonesian democracy not so truly tragic.
A greater presence of women in the House does not appear to reduce corruption; instead, they seem to reproduce graft. Perhaps, if there were equal numbers of women and men in the House, the number of women involved in corruption scandals would also be equal.
Transparency International Indonesia (TII) secretary-general Dadang Trisasongko said there was no correlation between the issuance of the Perppu and the judicial review, suggesting that the former would not hinder any legal process.
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