Origin of funds in Akbar case

It was reported by The Jakarta Post that most of the revenue of the State Logistics Agency's (Bulog) comes from rice sales.

Well, how is that possible for a country importing rice?

Or is it that Indonesia is exporting Indonesian rice so as to have the convenience of importing foreign rice for a select group of people within Bulog at the expenses of the Indonesian farmers?

The worst part is that money is not enough to repay the (bad) credit extended to, among others, the Indonesian Distribution Cooperatives (IDC). Think of it, Rp 320 billion?

In exchange for such help, the IDC is not helping farmers. On the contrary, they are depressing the prices of agricultural commodities for their own benefit.

A Bulog top decider declared that if the Rp 40 billion from Winfried was a loan, then the money has to be returned to Bulog.

Well, the money shall be returned to the needy -- the intended receivers as of 1999 -- and not to Bulog, an organization that skyrocketed to prominence associated with things like of corruption, collusion, and nepotism (KKN).

Indeed, by returning the money to Bulog, the KKN gang will be able to recuperate its money later on through rice-connected projects.

It is like allowing dirty money to go from one pocket to the other from the same KKN people through Bulog.

Therefore, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), or a Special House Commission, shall investigate where the money brought by Winfried really comes from.

The people who paid that money are the ones involved in that corruption case and, indeed, they can only be linked to the Functional Group's (Golkar) patrons of 1999.

Any Indonesian knows that but, strangely, most Indonesian legislators claiming to be their representatives are not interested in investigating further.

This is yet more evidence that true accountability to the people and a good governance are certainly not values praised within the Indonesian legislative body yet.

YVAN MAGAIN

Tubize, Belgium