Indonesia bergembiralah, karena dalam soal perkorupsian masih punya teman, yaitu India. Soal korupsi politisi India memang nyata. Laloo Prasad Yadav, yang kena fodder-scandal (penggelembungan besar-besaran pasokan pakan ternak) semasa dia chief minister di negara bagian Bihar, malah partai lokal JRD yang dipimpinnya menang dalam pemilu baru-baru ini, dan terpaksa pemerintah yang terbentuk memberi LPY hadiah hiburan berupa jabatan sebagai menteri kereta api. Selanjutnya LPY yang preman ini mewariskan jabatan chief minister Bihar kepada isterinya sendiri, Rabri Devi, YANG BUTA HURUF !!! Kenapa bisa begitu? Rupanya middle class India tidak peduli lagi untuk jadi politisi, seperti halnya Jerman setelah persetujuan Versailles kaum Herr Doctor-nya membiarkan Hitler yang preman berkuasa. Middle classnya merasa terlalu agung untuk terjun ke politik.
Keadaan Singapura lain lagi. Lee Kuan Yew dari awal mencitakan clean government. Dan itu dimulai dari diri sendiri dan keluarganya serta kader PAP (People's Action Party). Isterinya tetap mencari penghasilan dari law officenya. Ketika dia diusili mendapat apartemen murah berkat jabatannya, dia bayar penuh bukan harga promosi. Jangankan mencuri uang, kader yang membuang sampah dari mobilnya, langsung out. Ini bukan cerita karangan. Salam, RM -------------------------------------- STI Dec 10, 2004 Singapore's politicians among most honest: Poll Parties in India, Latin America and Indonesia seen as most corrupt PARIS - POLITICAL parties in Latin America, India, Indonesia and some eastern European states are the most corrupt, according to a poll which also showed Singapore to be among countries having the most honest parties. In half the 64 countries surveyed, 'political parties were rated by the general public as the institution most affected by corruption', the report said. According to the Gallup International survey, Ecuador rates worst in its population's eyes for political corruption, followed closely by Argentina, Brazil, Peru and India. Others with low grades included Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Indonesia, Ukraine and Uruguay. Transparency International, a Berlin-based non-governmental organisation, released its 2004 Global Corruption Barometer in Paris to coincide with the United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day. 'As TI's world barometer shows, corruption remains a scourge in many places, and many countries and sectors of economic and social life suffer its negative consequences,' Mr Daniel Lebegue, head of Transparency International France, told reporters. The countries considered to have the most honest parties in terms of corruption were Singapore, the Netherlands and Albania. Among the areas surveyed were perceptions of petty and grand corruption. In the Asia-Pacific region, two-thirds of those surveyed in India and the Philippines judged petty corruption to be a very big problem, while in Singapore, 43 per cent of respondents indicated it was not a problem at all. Grand corruption was also a considerable concern in India, but not in Hong Kong and Singapore. Many western Europeans rated petty corruption as but a minor problem, if at all. It was not viewed as a serious problem by Americans or Canadians, too. Mr Lebegue urged governments to ratify a UN Convention Against Corruption that would make it easier to return assets stolen by politicians and speed up the extradition of corrupt leaders who have fled. The survey asked more than 50,000 respondents how they rated various public institutions for graft. Political parties came out worst in most of the countries, followed by the police, customs officers and national parliaments. Policemen were considered especially corrupt in several African countries such as Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria, as well as in Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine. -- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
