Genuine Drive or Just a Counter-Offensive

If the government is now increasingly bent on catching corrupt officials, one should not see the move as but a counter-offensive launched by beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) .

February 20, 2001

IS it that difficult to fight corruption in Indonesia? As many people know, the answer is yes. Just listen to what Gus Dur said in a post-Friday prayers dialogue in Pasuruan, East Java, last week. He told his audience he would have ten officials of the New Order regime arrested on charges of corruption. The result? His remark is now one week old, and yet there are no signs of which officials have been caught. Worse, the ten names are not known

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