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View all search results“Corruption eradication [efforts] should address the root of the problem. [Graft] prevention is a more fundamental way [to address the issue],” said Jokowi on Thursday, adding that instilling a nationwide antigraft culture would be essential in the fight against corruption in the country.
The coalition, comprised of Anticorruption Indonesian Women and I am a Woman Against Corruption called on the KPK’s supervisory council to reconsider its decision in punishing Lili, arguing that she should be dismissed from her position due to her ethics breach.
The fate of scores of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees who were suspended after failing a controversial civics test lies with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, now that all other legal means to restore their employment have been exhausted.
Indonesia’s ongoing battle against corruption appears to be making little headway as fewer people expressed enthusiasm for the government’s efforts to prevent illicit transactions and prosecute graft perpetrators over the past two years, a recent study by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has found.
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has yet to announce the name of three final candidates for its law enforcement deputy position, which will be responsible for all legal efforts against graft suspects.
Independence is an absolute requirement for all anticorruption agencies. However, none of the nine anticorruption agencies that have operated in Indonesia since 1959 have lasted long or performed well a lack of independence.
If we want the diversity of interests to be governed democratically as an order, politics — instead of tyranny — makes up our human condition. Diversity of interests makes the adversarial nature of politics inescapable. An irony torments our wish; in politics, nothing prevents us from setbacks or decay despite our best efforts. This is what happened in the KPK Law revision.
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