Yes, Indonesia is really experiencing New Era in its journey as a Nation in this Democracy and Transparency Era. In Indonesia you can notice that the Indonesian News Papers and Electronic Media are very freely independent and nobody is in exception to be criticized including
the highest level position in the Executive, Judicial as s well as in
the Legislative; Particularly facing the 1914 Presidential and
Legislative.
- We cannot imagine that this could happen in Indonesia during the Soeharto Regime Power Era before 1998; Indonesia is actually still learning how to become a well integrated, Good Governance, transparency since in the Political Level, most of the Parties are still using monies influence to attract the people in their campaign to seek voters. Indonesia is an Archipelago consisting of thousands of Islands scattered from Sumatra to Papua, where in reality you need to have significant amount of funds and monies or sponsors to be able to capture the Parties Voters in these wide Spread Archipelagos of Indonesia.
Most of the officials who are
being dragged to the Court being alleged of conducting Corruptions are related to the High Level Legislative
and Head of the Region Elections where it indicates that there occurs collaboration between Private
Companies who had sponsored funds for the Political Figures which in return these Private Companies appears to be expecting to win tenders in the Government
Projects, which are demonstrated in the various Corruption Cases being
handled aggressively by the KPK (Komite Pemberantasan Korupsi) or
roughly translated the Corruption Elimination Committee.
- Several significant High Level Public Figures are being jailed and put to prison in the process of this Investigation by KPK, which are being highlighted by the Indonesian Journalist in the Local TV Media News in Indonesia. We can view and observe this as a positive legal trend process against corruption in Indonesia during this Transparency Era, where nobody is in exception to this new Era Trend occurring in Indonesia. At least there is definitely High Hopes experienced by us for a better future in Indonesia in the coming years to come.
Agung S.Suleiman