Taxing Corruptors

A HEALTHY democratic nation lives off the taxes of its people. If this view is correct, democracy in Indonesia is far from healthy. The problem is that while the ratio of tax revenues to gross domestic product in developed nations is usually around 40 percent, in Indonesia, it is still around a third of that.

The government is trying to manage things, but it can do better. The planned tax receipts of Rp592 trillion in this year’s State Budget,

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