Corrupt officials deserve death penalty

Corrupt officials deserve death penalty

Corrupt officials deserve capital punishment.

Lack of stern legal action against corruption has allowed such
bad practices to spread like a contagious disease.

Indonesia's largest and second-largest Islamic movements,
respectively the Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, have thus
agreed to ask the courts to hand down the death penalty to
corrupt officials.

Indonesians would support this move if the anticorruption
drive were carried out with great commitment.

The public know that allowing people suspected of corruption
to go abroad for health treatment is only a trick.

The suspects think that by giving such excuses they can
deceive more than 200 million Indonesians.

The public -- already fed up with the way corrupt officials
steal state funds -- want the death penalty for such dishonest
and unscrupulous people.

-- Republika, Jakarta