War on Corruption : An Indonesian Experience / Todung Mulya Lubis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubis, T. Mulya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--Indonesia.

Political corruption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 244 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

For Indonesian society, corruption remains a huge problem. Some of the reasons for this are easy to identify, flowing on from the authoritarianism of the Soeharto New Order (1966-1998). Other factors are less well known and less able to be easily intuited. As Todung Mulya Lubis, one of Indonesia's leading human rights lawyers and most influential legal thinkers, explains, 'Now corruptors come from the legislature, government, judiciary, and business communities, and they are not simply thieves but rent-seekers, benefiting from rapid economic development and weak law enforcement'. In Todung's telling, the best efforts of the most unswerving and talented Indonesian opponents of corruption have been frustrated since the epochal overturning of the Soeharto regime a generation ago. This story, however, is not without flashes of illumination. As Todung also shows, in recent decades there have been very many successful prosecutions of corrupt government and state officials, from the lowest levels to the very upper echelons of society. The creation of the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission, the KPK, in 2003, was an inspired move. For all its problems, arising from both internal dynamics and the often hostile social and institutional environments in which it has operated, the legal independence and dogged idealism of the KPK have made it a genuine force for renewal. War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience, is a courageous, informed, and sober insider's account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within this fourth largest nation, by population, and vital participant in world affairs.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Tables and figures

Foreword

Preface

Political corruption in Indonesia

Historical perspective

KPK: a superbody?

State capture corruption

Political corruption cases and criminalisation

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780522879650

0522879659

OCLC:

1450105691