Nusakambangan is Not Enough

Sending convicted corruptors to Nusakambangan is a good plan, but not the best one. Cleaning up the corruption inside jails is more important.

November 16, 2004

THE location of Nusakambangan Island in the estuary of the Serayu River has symbolic meaning. This maximum security jail will soon become the home for convicted corruptors, but it might as well be the source of all the country's problems. This nation is rich in natural resources, but most of its people are poor as a result of the widespread theft of public funds by government officials and their partners in crime. Small wonder that in the eye

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