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Gayus ‘Not a Unique Case’
Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman | December 07, 2011

Thousands of people sit the entry exam for civil servants. The notion that corruption is widespread in Indonesia received another boost on Tuesday after the Financial Analysis and Transaction Center confirmed that at least 1,800 low ranking officials had up to billions of rupiah in their savings accounts. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal) Thousands of people sit the entry exam for civil servants. The notion that corruption is widespread in Indonesia received another boost on Tuesday after the Financial Analysis and Transaction Center confirmed that at least 1,800 low ranking officials had up to billions of rupiah in their savings accounts. (JG Photo/Afriadi Hikmal)
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antifreeze
6:52pm Dec 7, 2011

Is this really 'news'? 'Old hat' 'You don't say' would be better nomenclatures.

Or even 'Strange but true'.

Incidently do the JG have one of those dinky columns or is the whole newspaper one big one, as often appears the case.


jblnor
12:07pm Dec 7, 2011

Cancel their passports and family passports immediately. How about some mob justice? If you are caught stealing here on the street a mob will often beat you to death. Publish the addresses and photos of those who are stealing from the people. No wonder everyone wants civil service jobs here. Its a license to steal. In civilized countries nobody wants those jobs. Nobody wants to be police or army either. They are not supposed to be lucrative professions.

exbrit
8:33am Dec 7, 2011

Any thinking person knows that the Gayus case was just a spit in the ocean used to protect his superiors and fool the public that the government is really fighting corruption

DrDez
7:36am Dec 7, 2011

No wonder the DPR are installing a KPK puppet

I agree with Mafud - name them


fanelli
3:11am Dec 7, 2011

Strength in numbers: they can't fire the entire civil service

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More than 1,800 low-ranking Indonesian officials have stashed public money in their private savings accounts, the Financial Analysis and Transaction Center announced on Tuesday.

Agus Santoso, deputy chairman of the center also known as the PPATK, said that since 2002 there had been 1,800 reports of corruption involving civil servants, including young ones.

Agus said that from the reports, the PPATK learned that low-ranking officials aged between 28 and 38 had hundreds of millions, if not billions, of rupiah stashed in their accounts.

However, the PPATK refused to name the institutions where those civil servants worked.

“If we [want to include] 40-year-old and older [officials in the reports], there would be so many more,” Agus said. “The PPATK has been following some officials since 2008, those who have smooth careers and hold lucrative positions.”

Agus said those indications meant that the notorious Gayus Tambunan, the former mid-level tax official who was found to have amassed more than Rp 100 billion ($11.1 million) in bribes, was not a unique case.

“I’ve been reading the data for a month now, and I feel so concerned about this,” Agus said.

The PPATK said some of the officials tried to hide their money by putting it into the accounts of their wives or children.

“We have sent the reports to the KPK [Corruption Eradication Commission] and the police,” Agus said, adding that coordination could also be established in the matter with the Attorney General’s Office, the Central Bank and the Finance Ministry.

The data, Agus said, was still considered “intelligence” and therefore could not be used as evidence since it first had to be legally proven in court.

Meanwhile, KPK commissioner M. Jasmin said he had yet to receive the reports from the PPATK, but he added that since both sides had signed a Memorandum of Understanding, the KPK could immediately take action even in the absence of a request.

“If there are irregularities in civil servants’ accounts or [officials from] other government departments, they are going to be forwarded to law enforcement institutions, including the KPK,” Jasin said.

Constitutional Court chief Mahfud M.D. urged the PPATK to make the report public.

But Agus said that under the law the PPATK could not publish reports in detail to the public. Full revelations can only take place once a court verdict on a particular case is issued, he said.

Adnan Topan Husodo from Indonesia Corruption Watch said that the issue was not the report but whether law enforcers could and would act on the PPATK’s information.

Additional reporting by Antara