Against corruption or corruptors?
Against corruption or corruptors?
From Suara Karya
The mass media and campaigning posters for the next
presidential election have used the words "eliminating
corruption", which in my view is inaccurate and will obscure the
target.
Corruption represents action, behavior or conduct. It is
intangible and can never be captured, tried, punished or
eliminated.
If we fight corruption, we will never succeed because it is
like the other words indicating action, such as marketing,
shopping, reading, etc.
It would be more appropriate to use the concrete word
"corruptors", just like criminals instead of crime, robbers
instead of robbery, which is the case when we eradicate
mosquitoes, rats and pests.
RUDY S. PONTOH
Jakarta