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The Corruption Eradication Commission (Indonesian: Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi), abbreviated as KPK, is an Indonesian government agency established to prevent and fight corruption in the country. [2] The KPK was created in 2003 during the Megawati presidency due to high corruption in the Post-Suharto era.
Corruption is an important development challenge that poses economic and social costs in Indonesia. Interference in public laws and policies for the sake of personal or private gain has weakened the competitiveness of Indonesia. [8] About one-quarter of ministries suffer from budgetary diversions in Indonesia. Households spent approximately 1% ...
Hoegeng (born Iman Santoso; 14 October 1922 – 14 July 2004) was the Chief of the Indonesian National Police from 1968 to 1970. Hoegeng is historically renowned for being the most courageous and honest police official in the nation, in a time when a majority of government officials were corrupt.
Robert Budi Hartono (born 28 April 1941) is an Indonesian tobacco billionaire with a net worth of US$25.3 billion as of September 2023. [2] He owns and runs the privately held Djarum, the world's third-largest maker of clove cigarettes.
The May 1998 Indonesia riots (Indonesian: Kerusuhan Mei 1998), [1] also known colloquially as the 1998 tragedy (Tragedi 1998) or simply the 98 event (Peristiwa 98), were incidents of mass violence and civil unrest in Indonesia, many of which targeted the country's ethnic Chinese population.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), commonly referred to as SBY, is an Indonesian politician, painter, and retired army general who served as the sixth president of Indonesia from 2004 to 2014 and the second president of Indonesia from the military after Suharto.
Political corruption; Forms and concepts; Bribery; Censorship; Cronyism; Economics of corruption; Electoral fraud; Elite capture; Influence peddling; Insider trading
Smith was born on June 5, 1969. [6] He grew up in Clay, New York, a suburb of Syracuse. [7] [8] His father was a draftsman of air-conditioning systems; his mother was a homemaker for most of Smith's childhood. [9]