Thursday, March 29, 2007

Cleaning up The President's backyard

Despite criticism of selective target of anti-graft movement, people praise President SBY's efforts so far. Several high-level officers close to the previous administration have been prosecuted, some of them were President SBY's colleagues. The most recent is the corruption investigation over former Bulog CEO Puspoyo Widjanarko. People would respect more the president's effort if he could start to clean-up his own backyard as promised in his early days in power. He could start with two ministers: Hamid Awaluddin and Yusril Ihza Mahendra, both involved in the disbursement of Tommy Soeharto's disputed USD10 million deposit. Or to be fair, all cabinet members, including the president should submit their latest financial reports to update their wealths.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why not start with the oldest person with literally the largest corruption schemes/scandals ever in Indonesia attached to his name? Do I need to mention him? Yes, it's Soeharto.

Do that, and then clean up his own backyard, then he'd be able to gain the people's trust. Other than that, it's all good-for-nothing.

April 03, 2007 8:11 PM  

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