What's the motive of corruption?<\/p>\n
The way I see it, your article Corruption as role distortion
\nby Ignas Kleden (The Jakarta Post, Jan. 6, 2001) somehow
\nmitigates corruption and put the blame on role performance rather
\nthan on the individual himself. The corruptor is a person who is
\nled into temptation, and, as Oscar Wilde says, the best way to
\novercome temptation is to yield to it.<\/p>\n
As an Indonesian citizen I have "seen" corruption under four
\ngovernments (Sukarno's, Soeharto's, Habibie's and the present
\nregime's). As a layman in the matter of corruption from a
\nsociological point of view, I can only see that it all boils down
\nto two causes, the need to make ends meet and greed. Lower-level
\ngovernment employees turn to corruption because their salary is
\nnot sufficient to maintain them through the whole month. This may
\nbe understandable, but when one comes to greed, this is something
\ninnate.<\/p>\n
Can one understand why a high-level government functionary
\ncorrupts hundreds of millions, or even billions of rupiah? Why
\ncan't he or she be satisfied with just some tens of millions of
\nrupiah? This mental attitude is very hard to eradicate. It cannot
\nbe solved by denying the middleman role of government employees,
\nbecause the whole corrupt generation has to die out and be
\nreplaced with new people (who hopefully have not inherited or who
\nhave not been contaminated by corruption) to lead the country.<\/p>\n
RUDI WILSON<\/p>\n
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