Lee & SBY exchange warning letters
The Jakarta Post wrote: Fight the haze or choke investors, Lee warns RI. I would write: Return the fugitives-corruptors or choke on the haze, SBY warns Singapore.
Well, Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong has written to president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) to express his dissapointment over smog from land-clearing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of South East Asia.
"Indonesia needed to deal with the problem in a timely and effective manner, so that investor confidence in Indonesia, ...., would not be affected."
SBY is a sensitive personality, so he replies with apologies, not just to Singapore but Malaysia as well. But I never heard of such gratitude when Indonesia desperately wanted Singapore return fugitives-corruptors long hided safely there and sign the extradition treaty.
Haze is absolutely not good for our health, so are corruptors-fugitives. As a country, Indonesia have no intention to export smokes. But as country, Singapore has every intention to keep the fugitives safe?
So, SBY will write to Lee as follows: "Singapore need to deal with the problem (the fugitives) in a timely and effective manner, so that investor confidence on Singapore's 'air quality', ...., would not be affected."
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Well, Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong has written to president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) to express his dissapointment over smog from land-clearing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of South East Asia.
"Indonesia needed to deal with the problem in a timely and effective manner, so that investor confidence in Indonesia, ...., would not be affected."
SBY is a sensitive personality, so he replies with apologies, not just to Singapore but Malaysia as well. But I never heard of such gratitude when Indonesia desperately wanted Singapore return fugitives-corruptors long hided safely there and sign the extradition treaty.
Haze is absolutely not good for our health, so are corruptors-fugitives. As a country, Indonesia have no intention to export smokes. But as country, Singapore has every intention to keep the fugitives safe?
So, SBY will write to Lee as follows: "Singapore need to deal with the problem (the fugitives) in a timely and effective manner, so that investor confidence on Singapore's 'air quality', ...., would not be affected."
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posted by yosef at 12:45 PM
5 Comments:
Wish it was that easy. All KPK does is talk about getting back billions of $$$s but all they ever do is bust small-time government corruptors in remote regions just to show that they are "working". If only Indo would make a serious effort in reigning in those "Singaporeans", Lee would have no choice but to hand them over. Unfortunately I don't see that happening anytime soon. As long as money talks thiefs will walk.
*thieves*
Thieves indeed, but Singapore has absolutely nothing to do with the failure of Indonesia to prosecute its white collar criminals. Sure, there are a couple bad guys who have fled the country and some of them are in Singapore, but there are many many more prosecutable Indonesians who are walking around Jakarta as I write this, and the failure of Indonesia to prosecute / convict them is solely the responsibility of Indonesia. Although I am sure it is tempting and convenient to blame others, it is entirely within the power of existing Indonesian institutions to prosecute and the failure to do so is a monumental indictment of the country and those institutions.
And if you need a way to nail the baddies, take a page from the Internal Revenue Service in the United States 80 years ago -- nail them on tax charges. Go look at their bank accounts and other assets and then their Indonesian tax returns, showing how they made that money and paid tax on it. They of course didn't pay tax on it. So prosecute them and put them in jail.
Sad but true, your response shows why these problems cannot be solved in Indonesia, and the prevailing attitude is rather than deal and solve these immediate problems, you prefer to point a finger at others (true or untrue) on other unrelated issues which detracts and distracts everybody from the problems at hand.
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