Joomla! site syndication http://antikorupsi.org/eng 2010-09-07T22:58:18+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2005-12-09T21:37:33+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=2 In the midst of the anticorruption campaign introduced by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in his first year term of office, an incident occurred at the Supreme Court recently in which a lawyer and five staff members of the Supreme Court were involved in an attempt to bribe Supreme Court Chief Justice Bagir Manan. This scandal has proven again that judicial corruption is still rampant in Indonesia. text/html 2005-12-09T21:33:08+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&Itemid=2 Frans Winarta's article on judicial corruption (The Jakarta Post, Oct. 31, 2005) lays much of the blame for the tragic state of the Indonesian judiciary precisely where it belongs -- with those in the legal profession who work to undermine the judicial system. text/html 2005-10-21T10:45:28+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=451&Itemid=2 Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) reported state-run television TVRI on Thursday to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in connection with allegations of markups that reportedly cost the taxpayer some Rp 7.2 billion (US$720,000). text/html 2005-10-12T09:49:55+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=450&Itemid=2 The task of the civil service is to implement the laws of the land. Too many of Indonesia's laws are not rooted in reality. They are unreasonable, unenforceable, irrelevant or otherwise obselete; they expect too much of Indonesia, too much of it's citizens and too much of those civil servants who are expected to bring what is written on paper to physical reality. Every impractical law, regulation or procedure is a rent seeking opportunity. text/html 2005-10-12T09:47:11+01:00 http://antikorupsi.org/eng http://antikorupsi.org/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=449&Itemid=2 Former president Soeharto's half-brother Probosutedjo admitted on Tuesday to giving his lawyer Rp 6 billion (US$600,000) to bribe the Supreme Court chief and other court officials dealing with his appeal against his graft conviction.