Inordinately Loaded

The non-commissioned officer with a suspicious Rp900 billion bank account has been detained. The question is the crime he allegedly committed, did he play a lone hand, or is he part of an institutional crime?

May 21, 2013

A non-commissioned officer in Indonesia would have to work more than 20,000 years to save, let's say, Rp1 trillion of his earnings, at current levels. Yet, it took police Adj. Insp. Labora Sitorus, 'only' 30 years to accumulate Rp900 billion in his savings account. This is 10 times the amount confiscated by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) from General Djoko Susilo in the driving simulator case.

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