A Bribe by Any Other Name

The result of BPK's investigation audit on KPU showed a `tactical fund' coming from companies that won bids. Gratitude money or bribes?

May 17, 2005

THE smell of something rotten was detected at the beginning of last March. Then, the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) team was auditing the procurement of five suppliers of the 2004 legislative general election. The result was that the team found that funds had been channeled from companies supplying logistics for the General Elections Commission (KPU) to officials. "Part of the fund came from PT Survindo Indah Prestasi (SIP)," said B

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