KPKPN must go on

KPKPN must go on

From Media Indonesia

While thieves are frequently caught by crowds and beaten black-and-blue or even burned alive, corruptors who have misused trillions of rupiah are mostly left unscathed. What about the law enforcers? How should they deal with them? Of course, they should be dealt with by institutes/commissions/committees and the like, rather than the masses.

Therefore, the more commissions are set up the better, so that if one commission fails to catch corruptors the others will take over the job. As such, commissions like the Public Servants Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) should not be dissolved. And other anticorruption committees should be established, as long as they are professional, effective and efficient.

We are fed up with the rampant corruption since the New Order regime, and the failure to eradicate corruption has been disappointing, owing to the lack of courage, professionalism, effectiveness and efficiency. In fact, the KPKPN has been relatively successful.

Let us all work together to eliminate corruption because it is a parasite and our nation has been left behind by other countries. In 1961 Indonesia was level with South Korea in terms of economic development, while our natural resources were more abundant. But that country has been successful in its fight against corruption.

Dr. PUDYANTO SURODIBROTO, Jakarta