Grease Money for Ship Inspectors

Police uncovered illegal fee collections for shipping permits at the transportation ministry. A deeply rooted practice that over the years metastasized at all levels of the ministry.

October 18, 2016

A PHONE call from the National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian did not upset Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi. He went ahead with his meeting after the supposedly 'critical' call informed him that the police were raiding the Integrated One-Roof Service Center at the ministry's Central Jakarta headquarters.

Budi Karya went to the building only after Tito called him again and said that President Joko Widodo was heading to the ministry. "I was

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