Between Garbage Trucks and Sedans
Jakarta's legislative assembly purchased automobiles for its members from the budget allocated to buy `public' garbage trucks. Why the cover-up?
October 2, 2001
Which is more important to purchase: garbage trucks or sedans? Udin, a garbage collector somewhere in Kebayoran Lama, can quickly and definitely make his choice—garbage trucks. He can easily point to the garbage littering the road as there are not enough garbage trucks. Members of a regional legislative assembly (DPRD), however, may not find the same question so easy to answer. They will first ask: Who will get the sedans? When they lea...