Cleaning up the Ministry of Opportunity

Director General of Immigration, Major General M. Mudakir, has been replaced by a civilian. Will the change help clear some of the chronic corruption that haunts the ministry?

July 10, 2001

THE DIRECTORATE General of Immigration now has a newcommandant, and he is a civilian who assumes the post previously ‘reserved’ for military men. Last Wednesday the former head of theJakarta Office of the Ministry of Justice, M. Iman Santoso, became Director Generalof Immigration, replacing Maj. Gen. (ret)M. Mudakir.

Iman is now in charge of a ministry considered to yield rich pickingsfor corruptors. The opportunities are believed to

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