Elvan Dany Sutrisno, Jakarta – At a time when the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is in a precarious position with hundreds of pro-KPK activists calling on the ordinary people to unite and safeguard the fight against corruption, it is ironic that efforts by the ordinary people to save the KPK have in fact drawn criticism from government
Corruption & Abuse of Power
Displaying 341-350 of 486 Articles
January 2015
Many believe the police’s attempts to criminalise the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) after it named President Widodo’s nominee for national police chief Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan a graft suspect, is in response to the KPK stepping up its probe into the Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) corruption scandal.
Man: There’s a political process, there’s a legal process... how come the result is... really, what will the world say Mr?
Man: Okay (headline reads 6% Economic Growth)
Government official: That’s okay too (headline reads Corruption Index of 34)
December 2014
International Anti-Corruption Day was marked across the country Tuesday, with many calling for harsher sentences and the seizure of graft convict’s assets.
November 2014
A statement by the Association for Provincial Governments that they are ready to be sentenced to death if convicted of graft (evoking memories of the widely ridiculed statement by high-profile graft convict Anas Urbaningrum who said he would hang himself from the National Monument if found guilty) has been dismissed as a publicity stunt after th
Man: My forefathers were a people of the sea...
September 2014
Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – Investigators from the municipal police Special Crimes Detective Unit (Dit Reskrimsus) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta have seized two luxury cars from the Yogyakarta-Central Java chairperson of the Islamic Defenders Front, Bambang Tedy.
Man: Later this kind of thing won’t happen anymore like now, right Mr?
March 2014
Man (speaking to KPK chief Abraham Samad): There’s an unpleasant odor of social aid funds isn’t there Mr?




