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