Only Clean Candidates Need Apply

A decision by the Board of Commissioners of the Selection Committee for the Financial Services Authority (OJK) to strike off the names of several lawmakers from its list of candidates for banking supervision, must be strongly supported. Its Board of Commissioners must not be made up of political party members. As the institution overseeing all financial business activities, it must be completely sterile from any other conflicting interests. In the committee's initial selection, the names of Golkar Party politician Marcus Melchias Mekeng and that of Indonesian Democratic Party of Stuggle (PDI-P) parliamentarian, Edy Andreas Susetyo, were both missing from the list.