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Yudhoyono Responsible for Culture of Graft: Megawati
Markus Junianto Sihaloho | December 13, 2011

PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri addresses the party faithful on Monday under an image of her father, Sukarno. JG Photo/Rezza Estily PDI-P chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri addresses the party faithful on Monday under an image of her father, Sukarno. JG Photo/Rezza Estily
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madrotter
1:19pm Dec 13, 2011

ehrrr.... the russian helicopter case? that lavish birthday party for 5000 at the state palace when she was president while the rest of the country was diving into poverty? her kid going to that f4 concert with 60 friends at 2,5jt per person? that student that was jailed because, oh the horror of it, he stepped on her picture making her want to vomit "like a volcano". i remember even her sister started feuding with her because the whole place was going to hell under her precidency... "the voice of the poor", remember that one?

jigm
12:14pm Dec 13, 2011

Like the aged Mullahs and radical Imams dear old Megadisappointment wants to drag this country into the past.

The value of quoting her dear departed father no longer has the currency it had before and to claim Indonesia, or any country for that matter can be self sufficient and not rely in other countries, is naive.

Her barely veiled racist remarks show how little she understands about the world Indonesia lives and when truth is told the endemic corruption we see today started very clearly under her watch.

While she was complaining about students being rude and demonstrating and that the press were always complaining about her, the rats came out the woodwork and corruption too off like a two dollar rocket.

Soeharto had corruption controlled to a few, Habibi managed to maintain some of that control, Gus Dur well and truly kept in check, and Megadisappointment let it rip because she was too concerned about - well nothing really..........


Kesiangan
12:07pm Dec 13, 2011

"She emphasized that her father Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president, had advocated self-sufficiency in national production (...)".

And by doing so he brought the country to the brink of total collapse.

DrDez
12:04pm Dec 13, 2011

electioneering has started early

3 key elements

1. Corruption

2. Nationalism

3. Violence (religious and gangs)

Prepare to be bombarded with such stuff for the next 2 plus years and note people will use attacks rather than putting forward their own policies - why? because they have not got any


marko1
11:34am Dec 13, 2011

I did not know Mega could speak...1st time for everything i guess...

Bandung. Megawati Sukarnoputri, chairwoman of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, used the opening of a party meeting on Monday to launch a fresh tirade against the government and its current leadership.

Speaking at PDI-P’s national work meeting in Bandung, Megawati blasted the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, saying he should be held responsible for the prevailing culture of corruption and money politics that pervaded the country.

She also criticized the government for kowtowing to foreigners, and even invoked the spirit of Sondang Hutagalung, who died after lighting himself on fire in front of the State Palace last week.

“The message was clear,” Megawati said. “We do not need any other signs that there is something wrong with the management of this country.”

The meeting, attended by 1,200 PDI-P cadres from across the country, was held to evaluate the party’s progress and formulate a strategy for a series of regional elections and the 2014 presidential election.

Megawati accused Yudhoyono and his Democratic Party of inappropriately using money to curry favor among voters and gain support for election campaigns.

“Just look how in the run-up to the 2009 elections, rice for the poor, cash assistance and other social assistance were distributed,” Megawati said.

“This policy was intensive in the 2009 elections and now we can see the same thing replicated in many regional elections.”

Corruption, she said, had become so institutionalized and routine that it now permeated state policy making.

“PDI-P should not close its eyes to all that damage,” Megawati said. “I am instructing that PDI-P become a pioneer in the eradication of corruption. Corruption is the enemy of the nation, now and in the future.”

The first thing parties could do, she said, was ensure the accountability of their finances.

“We say not only enough is enough to corruption but also that together we should learn about and spread an anticorruption stance,” Megawati said.

Another solution for improving government management, she said, would be to make running for office less expensive.

“PDI-P should reject a electoral system that leads to costly election,” she said.

Megawati also criticized the government for capitulating to foreigners in the face of a global economic crisis.

“The unfortunate thing is that many among us, especially among the decision makers, are still fixated with foreign and Western solutions,” she said.

She emphasized that her father Sukarno, Indonesia’s first president, had advocated self-sufficiency in national production. The current government, she said, was putting too much stock in foreign investment.

“What’s the difference between now and colonial times?” she said. “We are subjugated, we are only consumers of the products of other nations. Everything now has to be imported, even fish and ginger.”

Megawati was president from 2001 to 2004, when she lost to Yudhoyono. In the 2009 elections she was defeated by him a second time.

She has not said whether she will run in 2014. Some have called for her daughter, Puan Maharani, to contend.