Anticorruption fight no knockout

Anticorruption fight no knockout

BANDUNG: The fight against corruption launched by provincial
prosecutors in West Java 12 months ago has recovered Rp 230
million of an estimated Rp 117 billion in state losses resulting
from the crime, according to a prosecutor.

Provincial chief prosecutor Sudhono Iswahyudi said recently
that over the last 12 months his office had completed the
dossiers of 82 of 123 suspects. Trials are currently underway for
43 of these suspects.

Sudhono admitted his office's performance had not lived up to
people's expectations.

"Prosecutors find it difficult to collect evidence because the
corruptors protect one another. Many cases were uncovered long
after they had occurred, by the time all the evidence had
disappeared," he said.

He said corruptors were also able to hide their illegal money
by putting it in someone else's name or by buying property. -- JP