Bu Mega Is Stronger Than Ms. Mega Kira, And This Is A Contribution That You Can Make To Fight Corruption
JAKARTA - Chairman of the DPP PDI Perjuangan (PDIP) Megawati Soekarnoputri expressed feelings about the number of Bull Party cadres involved in corruption. Megawati said the news made her "unpowered." not. Megawati must be strong if she wants her party to be clean. More than that, Megawati has a chance if she really wants this country to be clean from corruption. We tell you how. Hopefully, we can strengthen Ms. Mega.
Megawati's statement was delivered in a virtual halalbihalal event with PDIP cadres. Halalbihalal is conducted in a dialogist manner. Megawati repeatedly invited her local manager to speak. There is no difficulty for Megawati to recognize the party manager up to the district / city level. Dialogue is built with them.
The show is intimate and warm. Megawati even invited the cadres to reminisce, considering the work of PDIP at the beginning of her leadership. One of them was about the attack on the party office during the New Order period. Megawati also alluded to how she traveled around Indonesia to appoint party officials in the sub-district.
Megawati misses the old PDIP. He then also alluded to corruption cases that later ensnared many PDIP cadres. These corrupt behaviors, Megawati said, also harmed the party. Not only in good name but also in the contest of national politics. Megawati also reminded the party's target of winning the 2024 election.
"I can't hear if anyone has been arrested for corruption. Tarnished the party name. Must remember the saying, nila a speck of broken milk sebelanga. That's why don't corruption," Megawati said, quoted Wednesday, May 19.
"PDI Perjuangan must remain and continue to flutter as long as this nation exists ... Don't let your guard down. Keep going down. Solid and spirit of work for the people. Continue to strengthen unity because this fight how the ideology of Pancasila continues to be the power of our struggle," added Megawati.
Emergency signsPDIP is obliged to sound the emergency sign. On Saturday morning, February 28, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) caught the defunct Governor of South Sulawesi Nurdin Abdullah in an OTT operation. Nurdin was then the fourth PDIP cadre to be caught with corruption in the space of six months.
In this case Nurdin allegedly accepted bribes. The latest developments, the Makassar Tipikor District Court indicted the contractor, Agung Sucipto for allegedly giving bribes of 150 thousand Singapore dollars and money worth Rp2 billion. Bribes are made in different places, one of which is done in the governor's office.
"So 150 thousand Singapore dollars was given the first bribe in the Governor's Rujab, then the second Rp2 billion that the hand-catching operation was carried out by the KPK," said KPK public prosecutor Muhammad Asri Irwan, in his indictment, quoted Tuesday, May 18.
In the indictment, prosecutors also uncovered a number of evidence, such as several proposal files and various governor's decrees related to infrastructure projects. Everything was signed by Agung Sucipto. In addition, there is also evidence of the flow of Funds Rp70 million to Nurdin sent through the account of Nurdin's wife, Lestiaty Facruddin.
Before Nurdin, we remember one of the most unfortunate corruption cases in the nation's history, involving former Minister of Social Affairs (Mensos) Juliari P Batubara. The minister embezzled money for the procurement of social assistance packages (bansos) COVID-19. Last April, kpk claimed juliari had received a bribe of Rp32.2 billion from the corruption of the COVID-19 bansos.
That figure is double the initial expectation of Rp17 billion. Kpk prosecutors detailed the source of the money, among them from the businessman, Harry Van Sidabukke, whose value is Rp1.28 billion, Ardian Iskandar Maddanatja (Rp1.9 billion), and money worth Rp29.2 billion from a number of companies providing food packages bansos COVID-19.
The parties gave money to be appointed as a provider of COVID-19 bansos. All the money was given to Juliari through two commitment-making officials in the Ministry of Social Affairs: Matheus Joko Santoso and Adi Wahyono. Juliari was sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
Two names before Juliari --completing the list of four PDIP cadres entangled in corruption cases in the last six months -- are Wenny Bukamo. He is the former Regent of Banggai Laut. Wenny was arrested by KPK for bribery of a project in Banggai Laut Regency. Another, Andreu Misanta Pribadi, ex-PDIP caleg.
Andreu is a former Special Staff of The Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Edhy Prabowo. Andreu turned himself in to kpk after being convicted of involvement in the practice of lobster seed export bribes aka benur.
What can Megawati do?many. There are all kinds of things Megawati can do. Remember, Megawati is the Chairman of PDIP, the ruling party. And President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) is his party cadre. If Megawati doesn't feel strong today, she's wrong. Megawati has great power if she really wants to contribute to the fight against corruption.
In the internal improvement section of pdip, for example. Megawati should be able to encourage the optimization of the functions of anticorruption devices within the party, such as the signing of integrity pacts or the collection of LHKPN for cadres occupying strategic positions. Megawati can also encourage prevention early on, especially in terms of political dowry.
"Opening access to information on the receipt and use of political budgets for PDIP can be one way and an example for other parties, that the ruling party must have high standards in the prevention of corruption through transparency and accountability of political funds," Transparency International Indonesia (TII) Research Manager Wawan Suyatmiko told VOI on Thursday, May 20.
What Wawan said was reasonable. Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) political expert Aisah Putri Budiarti said there are systemic problems in the Indonesian political system, including how a political party is managed. And most crucial in the context of corruption in the political dimension is party funding.
We know the high cost of politics. And what happens in Indonesia, political parties have no independent income. Business entities, for example. No party can build such a funding system properly. The party eventually sought funding through cadres and their members who won the election.
"This eventually puts the party in a political position. Political costs are high but there is no income. That's why it's vulnerable to corruption. One of the institutional aspects," Puput, when contacted by VOI, Thursday, May 20.
It's an internal matter. For a broader context, Megawati as leader of the ruling party could also leverage that position to build a national political system that is safer from potential corruption and other transactional matters. For example, improving the electoral system through the revision of the Law of Political Parties which according to Puput is crucial.
"PDIP will be the champion. A party that has a big seat in the House of Representatives. And the president's influence comes from the PDIP. Pdip should be the party that encourages a thorough revision of the Law of Parliament with the aim of improving the electoral system, the political system to prevent political parties koruspi more severe. Not the other way around," Puput added.
LIPI provides a number of recommendations that can be made in the context of political system evaluation through the revision of the Law. The first is to increase funding from the government for political parties. But with a note. The addition of funds should be accompanied by the strengthening of the public audit system.
In addition, the Law that must also be revised is the Election Law. LIPI recommends changes to the electoral system simultaneously. Simultaneous electoral system there should be a time lag between the implementation of national elections and local elections aka regions. It is important to provide opportunities for the public to evaluate the participants of the election.
"LIPI proposes to be made simultaneously local and national, with a pause between local elections and national elections. So there's a two- to three-year pause. The goal is for the public to be able to evaluate the parliament. For example, if the party and corrupt people are caught at the local level, there will be time for them to change their choice in the national elections," puput said.
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