Friday, July 14, 2006

Regional corruption jumps

Internal Affairs minister M. Mar'uf claimed a significant jump of corruption in regional and local admnistrations level in line with increasing amount of funds under their management as the result of Regional Autonomy arrangements.

Tempointeraktif.com reported this morning that number of corruption cases committed by local and regional administrations increased in the last three years in particular.
Since the regional autonomy implemented in 2001, the flow of state budget to regional and local administrations level jumped significantly by 170% from Rp81.47 trillion to Rp220.07 trillion (US$25 billion) in the state budget 2006.
Well, this is what we called decentralization of corruption.
Read my previous posts about Decentralization of Corruption.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thats like saying, rather than keep the sickness in one place, we'll distribute it evenly in the region. nice!

July 14, 2006 12:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Not to put all eggs in one basket is good.... right?

July 14, 2006 3:24 PM  

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