Payback!

Members of the Garut DPRD have returned a portion of the money embezzled from the regional budget. But the prosecutor's office remains intent on taking them to court.

June 22, 2004

FOLLOWING the example set by their colleagues from various local governments throughout Indonesia, members of the Garut Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) in West Java have become notorious for embezzling money from the regional budget. But, now they are paying for their crimes. Rather than receiving a financial severance package approaching the end of their term, members of the Garut DPRD have been collecting money to return to the st

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