Government assures WB over its fight against corruption<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government reiterated to the World Bank
\nyesterday its commitment to root out corruption, collusion and
\nnepotistic practices in the country.<\/p>\n
\"The government will continue to address these problems
\nthrough various policy reforms, but it is now time to return to
\nthe broader issue of how to formulate a strategy for creating an
\nenvironment in which KKN cannot survive,\" Coordinating Minister
\nfor Economy, Finance and Industry Ginandjar Kartasasmita said in
\na letter dated yesterday to the bank's country director, Dennis
\nde Tray, which was made available to The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
KKN is the Indonesian abbreviation for corruption, collusion
\nand nepotism.<\/p>\n
Ginandjar noted in his letter that Coordinating Minister for
\nDevelopment Supervision and State Administrative Reforms Hartarto
\nSastrosoenarto had begun to root out corruption, collusion and
\nnepotism in the bureaucracy.<\/p>\n
\"I would be grateful if the World Bank would assist Minister
\nHartarto and the government as we are seeking ways of curbing KKN
\npractices once and for all,\" Ginandjar said.<\/p>\n
Dow Jones quoted a World Bank's official here as confirming
\nyesterday that De Tray would return to the bank's headquarters in
\nWashington next January.<\/p>\n
Bondan Winarno, external affairs consultant at the World Bank
\nin Jakarta, said the post of Indonesian director is now being
\nadvertised.<\/p>\n
He said De Tray would take up a senior position in Washington.<\/p>\n
De Tray rejected this week the allegations that some 20
\npercent of money earmarked for bank projects in the country had
\nbeen siphoned off fraudulently, although he said corruption was a
\nproblem.<\/p>\n
The Asian Wall Street Journal, citing a World Bank internal
\nmemorandum, said Monday that Indonesian officials were believed
\nto have taken more than 20 percent of project money.<\/p>\n
De Tray said the extent of the corruption had never been
\nquantified, although he did not deny there were problems of
\ncorruption.<\/p>\n
Present in Indonesia since 1966, the World Bank has been
\nsharply criticized for not blowing the whistle on the country's
\neconomic mismanagement and frail banking system before they were
\nhighlighted in the crisis that broke with Thailand's July 1997
\ndevaluation of the baht. (jsk)<\/p>",
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