Schools of law launch war on graft

YOGYAKARTA: Schools of law from dozens of universities across the country declared on Thursday a national movement against rampant corruption.

The schools of law will set up a joint center for anticorruption studies and help empower as many academics as possible to get involved in the antigraft drive, chairman of the schools' cooperation body Hikmahanto Juwana said.

The declaration marked the opening of a three-day anti- corruption summit hosted by Gadjah Mada University, which will run until Saturday.

People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Hidayat Nur Wahid and chairman of the Partnership for Governance Reform non- governmental organization HS Dillon were also present for the antigraft movement declaration.

Dillon said the nation was facing a hard fight in its battle against graft because schools of law had produced corrupt lawyers. -- JP