Corruption and Indonesian Culture

Corruption has happened for many years and today it becomes a bad culture
for three reasons.
Most adult Indonesian or foreigners have known and admitted that
corruptionshappen in many places. The daily newspapers, news programs on TV
and radio have reported corruptions are done everywhere, almost in all departments
or public services of this country. Corruptions happen in health, education departments and
banks. !hen wemanage to get some documents in public service o"ces, we usually need
much moneyto pay. Manipulations happen everywhere. The actions to eliminate corruption are
weak. The ever stronger culture seems notto come to an end when the responsible
institutions who have to reinforce the #usticetoday commit corruption. This is the
worst. Corruptions happen in police department, courts where #udges, public
prosecutors, lawyers make deals to do corruption. $ll of usalso heard in the end of
%&&', (robosute#o reported that he had bribed the )upreme Court, or called
Mahkamah $gung which becomes the highest level where the #ustice canbe obtained.
(erhaps you have to try to come to the local courts and see what happen there.
*ou will see practices of bribery and other kinds of corruption. Therefore, we cansay that
corruptions becomes our culture. +o you like it The citi-
ens have no goodwill to ght against the corruption. They create thesituations in which
people ahave opportunities to do corruptions. The citi-ens like tobreak the rules
because they are not disciplined. /or example, in the street when
theyd r i v e a c a r o r r i d e m o t o r c y c l e , t h e y d o n o t h a v e t h e d r i v i n g l
i c e n s e o r n e c e s s a r y documents. Then, they are caught by the local policemen. To
avoid more di"culties, theylike to bribe the o"cer. The o"cer let them go then. In
other words, the citi-ens
ando " c e r s a r e t h e s a m e , d o i n g c o r r u p t i o n t o g e t h e r . I f o n l y t h e p e o p l e w
e r e c r i t i c a l , disciplined, and obey the rules, and willing to report any wrong
behaviors, this countrywill not be number one corrupting country in the world.Conclusion
0ased on the reasons, we can conclude that corruption is becoming abad culture in
Indonesia if it is not ended soon by all of us. It seems that there must be more
severe penalty for the Corruptors. +o we still care about the future of this country