In Need of a Push

If its priority is to stamp out corruption, the KPK should have the backing of the bureaucracy.

Tempo

July 6, 2004

THE Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has been at work for six months. It has handled 11 cases, investigated 145 reports from the public and declared three state officials suspects. It is, however, too early to say that the commission has taken a step forward in stopping the theft of state funds. In the case of suspected corruption involving Abdullah Puteh, the Governor of Aceh and its civil emergency authority, the KPK gives the impression

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