Take and Give

The Corruption Eradication Commission detained 24 legislators suspected of accepting bribes in the form of traveler’s checks. It is time to go after the briber.

February 9, 2011

THE new leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) seem to be trying hard to dispel people’s suspicions that it is halfhearted in handling the traveler’s checks case, linked to the election of the Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor in 2004. The detention of 24 members of the House of Representatives (DPR), suspected of accepting bribes over the election of Miranda S. Gultom, shows that for now the KPK is not retreating. Senior

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