Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Text Your Say: Weakening the KPK

The Jakarta Post | Wed, 03/30/2011 8:50 PM | Readers Forum

Your comments on the proposed revision of anticorruption law, which would reduce sentences for convicted corruptors and stripping the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of its power to prosecute the wrongdoers:

Stripping the KPK of its prosecution powers is only relevant if the police, judges, courts and the House of Representatives have concrete and verifiable evidence that they operate cleaner. Is that so?

Taco F de Vries
Banda Aceh

Go ahead and steal from the public! If you don’t get caught, you get to keep the money. If you do get caught, you just give back the money and then steal it again tomorrow!

Is there any other democracy in the world where legislators are so open about their desire to promote corruption?

John Hargreaves
Jakarta

This is a truly sad day. When a poor person steals something from a rich man he will receive harsher and more violent punishment and poor treatment than a person who steals from millions of poor people. I do not know when injustice will end in this country.

Udin
Padang

The whole attempt to change the law is corrupt to the core.

Devi
Jakarta

If the new KPK Law gives such light punishments and effectively says corruption is OK, why just not legalize any corruption, as during Soeharto’s era? The bill is ridiculous! Preposterous!

Widya Utama
Bergen, Norway

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Proposed revisions of the anticorruption law would reduce prison sentences for corruption convicts and strip the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of its power to prosecute wrongdoers. What do you think?

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