JAKARTA - Vietnam was known as the 'safe' house of corruptors. The system of one party became the estuary. The only ruling Vietnamese Communist Party has no rivals. The pace of corrupt officials became uncontrollable. However, everything changed when Nguyen Phu Trong became Secretary General of the Communist Party.
He became the great architect of the Vietnam anti-corruption movement. Corruptors fear him. His mainstay style is asking officials to choose two things: resigning or the Communist Party moves to embarrass corruptors.
The narrative of corruption can be lost from Vietnam, which was considered a miracle in the world. No one ever thought that corruption could be destroyed. This distrust is equivalent to an Indonesian who wants his country to be free from corruption. Many people think it is impossible.
Recently, the corruption that undermined Vietnam began to enter an alarming stage in the 2010s. Superiors and subordinates began to practice using people's money. Some people feel conditions in Vietnam should not be allowed.
It is possible that the movement of the country's economy will slow down. Criticism was barely heard by the authorities. Problems arise. No one dared to reveal how corrupt officials are. As a result, the awareness of eradicating corruption emerged from within the top Communist Party officials themselves: Nguyen Phu Trong.
Trong is not new to the political map of Vietnam. He has been a Communist Party cadre since he was 23 years old in 1967. He has felt various positions. However, Trong is different from other politicians. His political actions were straight. Alias, he grew up to be a figure who couldn't be driven.
He called the anti-corruption road an honorable life. He served as Head of the Communist Party's Theoretical Council in 1997. His position is to maintain the purity of party ideology. He continued to be Secretary of the Communist Party Committee in 2000.
At its peak he was elected as the secretary general of the Communist Party in 2011. His work as a party official is actually from sparkling words. He was reluctant to take things that were not his rights. he also lived a simple life. Not a luxurious life like an official.
kenal dengan gaya hidup sederhana, ia tinggal bersama istrinya, Ngo Thi Man, seorang pensiun polisi, di sebuah flat seluas 25 meter persegi di Hanoi. Setelah menjadi ke ketua partai, ia pindah ke complex yang dibangun pemerintah, tetapi tetap mempertahankan mobil Toyota Crown lamanya, ujar Giang Nguyen dalam tulisannya di laman The Guardian berjudul Nguyen Phu Trong Obituary(2024).
Trong's daily figure as an official of the Communist Party made corruption officials get cold sweat out. Trong could not be turned around. He was perpendicular to his goal of eradicating corruption and purifying the Communist Party from dilapidated officials.
He later became the architect of the massive Vietnam anti-corruption movement called the Burner Tungku. No official can be free from his actions. He can take action against many corruptors. Moreover, when Trong, who incidentally the Secretary General of the Communist Party, rose to become President of Vietnam in the 2018-2021 era.
Whoever is corrupt, he will not be released. However, Trong has a strategy. Corrupt officials are not immediately humiliated. Those who are corrupt are provided with two options. First, officials are asked to resign and will be punished lightly. Second, those who do not admit that corruption will then be found guilty and humiliated as punishment in communist countries.
Even Trong is a person who holds the word. This option made the state officials resign because of corruption. In the following years, the number of party and government officials who claim to be corrupt is increasing. In fact, it reached 200 thousand people.
The corrupt official was disciplined, expelled, and some were charged with criminal acts. The action was carried out by Trong with a beautiful procurement: cutting off branches eaten by caterpillars to save all trees.
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The corrupt officials who were hit by the anti-corruption nets of Phu Trong were not only at the ministerial level. Two Vietnamese Presidents --Nguyen Xuan Ph!c and Vo Van Thuong resigned from their positions on charges of corruption. The Vietnamese people also fully support Trong. However, Trong passed away in July 2024. The Vietnamese people also hope that the replacement for Nguyen Phu Trong will join the fight against corruptors.
Since Trong started an anti-corruption campaign in 2016, countless officials have been fired, dismissed from parties, or imprisoned for corruption. For example, at that time, the Minister of Health, Nguyen Thanh Long, and Vu Hong Nam's ambassador, were officially fired last year for their corrupt actions around the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Some experts argue that the party now wants to create a cultural resignation,' so irresponsible officials can take action before they have to be removed. Trong suggested that those who resign be given lighter penalties. Trong argues it would not be good if all of them were severely punished, or removed from office, "explained David happened to his writing on the Diplomat page entitled Vietnam s Anti-Corruption Drive Can Never Go Far Enough (2023).
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