The most corrupt parties, political corruption rates: SBY says Partai Demokrat is far from the worst.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has defended his political vehicle, – Partai Demokrat, lately beset with corruption allegations, – that it is not even the most corrupt party in Indonesia: antara
Recently there have been Partai Democrat members accused of corruption. The question is, is it only Partai Democrat people that are corrupt? We answer firmly: ‘no’
Speaking at a party function in Jakarta on 13th June SBY went on to bring up figures to prove his assertion, breaking things down regionally.
At the top levels of administration, from what the English language press unfailingly insists on calling “lawmakers” (members of the national parliament), through to ministers, provincial governors, city mayors, and regency heads, SBY said the Democrat rate of corruption was only 8.6%, with two parties having worse records. He didn’t name names:
Moving downstream to the provincial parliament “lawmakers”, since 2004 Partai Demokrat had a rate of corruption of only 3.9%, he said, with four more corrupt parties:
Minor league Demokrat representatives seem to be the worst, or at least get caught more often, as at the city and county/regency level constituent assemblies Partai Demokrat MP’s had a corruption level of 11.5%, with two parties worse:
SBY ended his plea for understanding with
So is it fair if Partai Demokrat is considered corrupt?
The vast majority of Indonesia is corrupt & dishonest,its the established culture.
It’s too obvious that this party is not different than others. We’re not expecting to have a 100% clean and corrupt-free party; since only God has that excellency. But at least, we’re hoping to have a party who dare to admit that there’s something wrong in his body; and trying their best (by doing) to clean the disease.
For me, at least, we will have a clean choice not to choose the corrupt party in the next electoral. And the only party who clean 100% is : a GOLPUT party.
Aji Saka
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Hell, yeah!
PD has marketed itself in the past as a “clean” party, when in reality it is now no better than the rest, including (the other “clean” party) PKS.