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Bureaucrats in Central Java Protest Prosecutor’s Dedication to Doing His Job
Candra Malik | July 30, 2010

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Roland
2:35pm Jul 30, 2010

Great job Mr. Jhoni Manurung!

And the names of the contractors refusing to continue their assigned jobs as well as the names of the 168 civil servants (it says it in their title "SERVANTS" to the public!) and all these officials protesting now cause somebody "PLAYS IT TOO STRAIGHT" - they are all corruptors - at least in their hearts and minds they are supporting it! You can't play it not straight - being straight is the minimum requirement!

But as with so many other issues in Indonesia - I am sure Jhoni Manurung will be sacked for some flimsy reasons or (and I really do not wish that it happens but reality in Indonesia sees it happening) he ends up in a hospital or (God beware!) even worse....

Asoegenie
1:04pm Jul 30, 2010

Give 'em hell, Jhoni Manurung!!! Wish many more Indonesian officials were like YOU!

padt
12:19pm Jul 30, 2010

It is corrupt officials and the pervasive ethos of bribes and procedural irregularities that are holding back development not the other way around.

It is an indication of how rotten, warped and limited is the mentality of these officials that they should think otherwise.

There is a war on in Indonesia against the Indonesian people. And these people are the enemy. And their arsenal is full of ignorance and stupidity and lack of decency.

How do these louts get into positions of power?

All strength to chief prosecutor Jhoni Manurung. He stands out head and shoulders above the mob of self-serving ignoramuses. I hope he stands up to their unbelievably stupid threats. Stupid threats coming from stupid people. Let them resign. And replace them with people of integrity?

Splash this story across the front page of the Jakarta Globe. Splash this story around the world. These people need to be laughed to scorn and ridiculed. And they need to be punished.

And sooner or later, Indonesia has to get real about corruption and start educating people into a mindset where they can understand that corruption in the end does not help the country. While there is a majority of people living in poverty, this country has not got a healthy economy. Why can't these fools see that? They can't because they don't want to. Well, move them out of the way then.

This country is at war. And these people are the enemy. Fight them! And the best way to fight stupid ideas is with better ideas.

I don't think I have read anything so appallingly cynical in my life. These people are literally saying we don't care about anyone or anything else except ourselves. These are not the kind of people who should be dealing with government projects or government money.

They are rotten, through and through. Worse! They are stupid. And that combination makes them dangerous.


landreaumax
11:52am Jul 30, 2010

this is hilarious..

“We’ll only go back to work once we receive guarantees from the district head that we have immunity against prosecution.”

can i have one of these too? pretty please??

SirAnthonyKnown-Bender
10:58am Jul 30, 2010

Jhoni!! You beauty!! So there are still some heroes out there...

“We’ll only go back to work once we receive guarantees from the district head that we have immunity against prosecution.” ROFFL

Batang, Central Java.  Thousands of local officials and civil servants staged a protest in Batang, Central Java, on Thursday to demand the sacking of local chief prosecutor Jhoni Manurung, whom they accuse of terrorizing development project contractors and officials by playing it too straight.

The protesters claimed that Jhoni’s proclivity for bringing criminal charges against corrupt contractors and officials was setting back the district’s development and costing valuable jobs, adding that even when an issue could be “resolved amicably,” Jhoni still preferred to throw the book at them.

“His heavy-handed actions are making our jobs harder because we fear we may be next to face criminal charges,” said local bureaucrat Bustanul Arifin.

“He’s already had one head of office arrested.”

Jhoni has mounted an intensive campaign against fiscal and procedural irregularities in development projects, which are often rife with allegations of bribery and markups.

He denies that he is being unduly harsh on project contractors and local officials, and says that his campaign is saving money for the local administration.

“We found that nine out of 13 projects currently under way may be in breach of work specifications and execution,” he said.

“Our investigations into all of these cases have always abided by the presumption of innocence.”

Jhoni added that he would continue his campaign in spite of the bureaucrats’ protests.

The most prominent of the investigations centers on the construction of a health clinic. On Tuesday, prosecutors arrested local health office head Budi Utomo Raharjo for allegedly embezzling Rp 55 million from the project’s Rp 1.3 billion budget.

That move prompted contractors of the 12 other development projects in the district to suspend their operations indefinitely, in turn leading to the bureaucrats linked to them taking to the streets in protest.

On Tuesday, 168 civil servants certified as National Procurement Experts, which is a qualification required by officials working on development projects, handed in their certificates, in a symbolic protest against Jhoni’s strict adherence to the rules.

“We don’t want to be the next target of Jhoni’s prosecution,” Bustanul, one of the officials, said at Thursday’s protest.

“We’ll only go back to work once we receive guarantees from the district head that we have immunity against prosecution.”