Mahfud Reveals Corruption Makes The Economy Stall, The People Become Poor

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JAKARTA - Candidate for Vice President number three, Mahfud MD said that corruption is one of the factors that causes the Indonesian economy to stagnate. In fact, it causes the poor.

The statement began when Mahfud mentioned the assessment of experts or experts regarding the stupidity of the community so that economic growth did not increase.

"Just because of our stupidity, we cannot increase economic growth to 7 percent because we are rich with great natural resources and human resources," Mahfud said at the vice presidential debate event at the JCC, Senayan, Jakarta Thursday, December 22.

Then, Mahfud began to mention the corruption that became the main disease that caused stagnation in economic growth. This is because criminal acts occur in almost all lines.

"What is the problem, the problem is that there is a lot of corruption and infection in the economic connectivity sectors, namely in the consumption sector, government spending, exports of imports and investments," he said.

Not to forget, Mahfud also stated that corruption occurred in all pillars of democracy. Even in all elements of nature.

All of these things have made it difficult for economic growth. It also leads to poverty in the Indonesian people.

"So, because a lot of corruption really happens, look at it based on the results.. international transparency, corruption occurs in legislative, executive, and judicial institutions on a large scale," he said.

"Corruption is also established in these three dimensions in our nature. We are stepping on the earth, there is corruption on land and mining, I think going to the sea there is corruption in the marine maslaah, we see air, our flying citizens turn out to be in the udata as well as corruption banuak. As a result, what are the poor," said Mahfud.