A New Policy or Empty Rhetoric?

Heralding President Yudhoyono’s plan to declare 2005 the Year of Eliminating Corruption, the attorney general has declared that he will hunt down the nation’s corruptors.

December 7, 2004

HAVING been appointed Attorney General of Indonesia barely two months ago, Abdul Rahman Saleh is now finding himself spearheading the government’s attempts to crack down on corruption. Last Monday, Saleh addressed members of the House of Representatives (DPR) during an informal hearing with DPR Commission III members. “The work of prosecutors is not political, but legal in nature. It concerns matters of legal technicality and requires

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