Corruption & Abuse of Power

September 2019

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – September 4, 2019

If you can, pick the clean ones. Don’t play favourites, show some real guts Mr...

Document reads: 10 Candidate KPK Leaders

August 2019

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – August 30, 2019

Jakarta – Hundreds of people and three command vehicles arrived on the grounds of the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK) Red-and-White building in Jakarta at 3 pm Friday August 30.

News/West Papua
Tempo – August 22, 2019

Iqbal Tawakal Lazuardi, Jakarta – Papuan students in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung feel hurt and angry after being given two boxes of alcohol by a police officer.

July 2019

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – July 29, 2019

Jakarta – A number of activists from the Civil Society Coalition suspect that the selection of leadership candidates for the Corruption Eradication Commission (capim KPK) for 2019-2023 which is currently underway is being manipulated by the government.

News/Indonesia
Tempo – July 17, 2019

Fira Prameswari, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Kurnia Ramadhana says that the Corruption Eradication Commission leadership selection committee or Pansel Capim KPK is not supporting the eradication of corruption.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – July 17, 2019

Jakarta – The lawyer representing senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan, Arif Maulana, believes that the Joint Fact Finding Team (TPGF) established by Indonesian police (Polri) chief General Tito Karnavian has totally failed to properly investigate the 2017 acid attack against his client.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – July 16, 2019

Jakarta – The Anti-Corruption Social Coalition says that it is pessimistic about the police’s effort to uncover the perpetrator behind the 2017 acid attack against senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan.

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – July 10, 2019

Man: Finding someone with some guts is also important Mrs.

Robot’s arms and legs read: Integrity, professionalism, commitment, independence.

News/Indonesia
Tribune – July 5, 2019

Gita Irawan, Jakarta – Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) researcher for political affairs, Professor Syamsuddin Haris, is concerned that there is a plot to “tame” the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) through the selection of new batch of KPK leaders for 2019.

June 2019

Cartoons/Indonesia
Kompas – June 28, 2019

From an oped piece titled The Constitutionality of Dismissing Corrupt Civil Servants

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says there are 1,466 state civil servants (PNS) who have been found guilty of corruption but have yet to be dismissed and are still receiving wages.