Avoiding Corruption
The President’s statement reads like an encouragement to chief executives of problematic provinces. The warning should be: to avoid dealing with the law, avoid corruption.
January 26, 2010
PRESIDENT Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recently warned law enforcement officials against arbitrarily arresting and detaining provincial chief executives with legal problems. In the midst of the government’s strident efforts to eradicate corruption, the statement he made when opening the Working Meeting of the All-Indonesia National Association of Regency Administrations in Madiun, seems counterproductive. Some people could read the statement as a k
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