Bulogate criminal category<\/p>\n
I observed with interest remarks made by police chief Alex
\nBambang and Attorney General Marzuki Darusman, that the Rp 35
\nbillion drain is a criminal offense.<\/p>\n
I tend to disagree since a law is missing declaring that these
\nextra-budgetary funds that are floating around are governmental
\nfunds. There must be some 600 of these surrogate accounts,
\nincluding the seven odd foundations from former president
\nSoeharto, every provincial governor, every regent and every
\nstate-owned company, numbering 200 or so, which have created
\nthese Frankenstein sources of evil.<\/p>\n
As a citizen uneducated in governmental affairs, I can only
\nconclude that governmentalstate funds are those which flow into
\nthe state coffers. Thus, if these sums are accumulated from god-
\nknows-where, into accounts where each minister or high-ranking
\ndirector (general) or inspector or official of a trustee fund can
\nsign checks, etc., then these are funds belonging to them?<\/p>\n
Thus, logic commands that there is no criminal case, just the
\nusage of funds.<\/p>\n
I wonder if members of the Consultative Group on Indonesia
\n(CGI) have this same system of free-floating accounts in their
\ncountries?<\/p>\n
And if the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
\n(IMF) insisted that these practices here should stop at once,
\nabolishing the bad habits of the old Soeharto regime?<\/p>\n
And if they did overlook this serious flaw, are they then
\nseriously incompetent, as Jeffrey Winters pointed out some five
\nyears ago? Or are they also on the take themselves ?<\/p>\n
YOESOEF SANTO<\/p>\n
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