Corruption management

It is very interesting to analyze the 2004 survey conducted by Transparency International Indonesia of governmental institutions in 21 cities in Indonesian. More details of the survey should be published to let the public know more about corruption in Indonesia.

Many theories, hypotheses, assumptions and aspects can be derived and developed about corruption. As one of the leading countries in terms of corruption, with a numbers of well-educated scholars from various universities who no doubt have experience with corruption, Indonesia could create a new management subject called Corruption Management.

It goes without saying that a lot of students, both Indonesians and foreigners, would be eager to study this new kind of management. The history of corruption, various forms and models, tricks to escape punishment, the incidence of corrupt interactions, failures and successes in fighting corruption, with interesting case studies, could all be studied.

As a new management subject and with so many people involved, there would be a huge number of ideas and solutions, from simple and common ones to unique, crazy, exceptional, brilliant and complicated answers, on how to solve the growing, never-ending problem of corruption in Indonesia.

I am sure most Indonesians would like to see the number of corruption cases reduced in the coming years, and dream of enjoying clean and good governance.

PAULUS GUNAWAN Jakarta