Gifts of Unease

Respondents feel that DPR members who receive gifts no longer deserve to be watchdogs on the government.

September 25, 2001

MANY members of the House of Representative (DPR) receive billions of rupiah in gifts? It's a question uppermost in the minds of many people following reports of huge sums of money being listed as 'gifts' in questionnaire forms filled out and returned by DPR members in response to the Audit Commission on State Officials' Wealth (KPKPN). Respondents to TEMPO polling are divided over the question with the majority against any such gifts, point

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