DPR Corruption: Another Case of Waiting for Godot?
Engelina Pattiasina exposed plans to bribe DPR members, while Indira Damayanti testified to the police on the subject. Our economy is already on the rocks, so something must be done before anarchy breaks out.
October 8, 2002
The North Sulawesi Provincial Government set aside Rp1.5 billion as incentive for members of the House of Representatives' (DPR) budget committee to secure a Rp35 billion supplemental budget allocation. Everything should have gone according to plan. The central government agreed, Manado was happy, what could go wrong?
What went wrong was the deputy chairperson of the DPR budget committee, Engelina Pattiasina. She disagreed with the decision
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