Watching the Corruptors
Indonesia’s new Anti Corruption Law should put the corruptors in their place once and for all—if it works. The law involves a systerm of reverse proof. In other words, the accused also has to prove he or she did in fact accrue their questionable financial gains honestly. Under the law, information from the public and electronic documents become admissable as evidence.
December 11, 2001
Wiping out the rotten cancer of corruption should be an increasingly serious task once Indonesia’s new Anti Corruption Law comes into effect, in theory anyway. At least the corruptors will no longer be able to cite a ‘legal vacuum’ as a reason to let them off in court. The last Anti Corruption Law, Law Number 31 of 1999, has been revised to become Law Number 20 of 2001. In the process, one or two legal oddities have been rem
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