Sely Martini
Calling on Women to Fight Corruption

There was no red carpet or snapping cameras on a glittering stage when Sely Martini won the Honesty Oscar from ONE.org and Accountability Lab. This award was announced by the two agencies involved in transparency issues through the Twitter account @ONEcampaign on March 2, 2014, coinciding with the other Oscar awards given to Hollywood starts in the United States.

Sely, 38, a resident of Bandung, West Java, secured the award in the category of Best Activist. She won over anticorruption activists from various countries like John Gitongo (Kenya), Aruna Roy (India), Gregory Ngbwa Mintsa (Gabon) and Xu Zhiyong (China). "Even being just nominated would have made be happy as it means my activity is being acknowledged by others," Sely told Tempo at the ICW office in South Jakarta two weeks ago.

April 19, 2016