Bribery in education must be eliminated

Bribery in education must be eliminated

I am taking the post-graduate program in the Jakarta State
University. I will be conducting a survey under the theme
Relationships of neurotic disorder to IQ, religiousness, and
socio-economic status of primary school children.

However, I feel very concerned about the rumors of bribery
practices prevailing in these graduate studies. Of course such
malpractice could not be proved. Should anyone dare to speak of
bribery, he or she might be accused of libel and brought to
court.

It should be realized that bribery practices will gradually
and systematically destroy our national education, and will lower
the quality of the education. Eventually the institutions
concerned will only produce bogus scientists, academicians, and
the like. This is a very serious problem, indeed, especially for
a developing country like ours.

Practices of bribery should be completely eliminated if we are
to maintain higher standards of education.

DR. RUWIHADI

Surakarta, Central Java