Refleksi : Barangkali perlu diperhatikan bahwa waktu Soeharto turun tachta, kekayaan hasil korupsi dijamin oleh penguasa berikutnya hingga kini. Keluarga Soeharto dan konco-konco rezim bebas melakukan aktivitas seperti pada masa Soeharto berkuasa. Diantara anak-anak Soeharto pun bersedia mencalonkan diri dalam pemilihan umum untuk menjadi kepala negara.
Keadaan di Tunisia berbeda jauh. Saudara-saudara Ben Ali ditangkap dan harta kekayaan mereka disita. Simpanan 600 juta dollar di Bank Swiss pun dibebukan oleh pemerintah Swiss. Harta hasil korupsi Soeharto tidak utik-utik, oleh mereka yang memegang kemudi negara setelah Soeharto. Malah SBY pun menyatakan sulit untuk diusut, sekalipun pihak Perserikatan Bangsa -Bangsa (UNO) bersedia untuk membantu guna menarikan kembali simpanan harta hasil korupsi Soeharto. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/2011119201252887481.html Tunisia leader vows break with past Interim president vows "total break with past" but protests continue over presence of old ministers in new government. Last Modified: 19 Jan 2011 21:36 GMT Fouad Mebazaa, Tunisia's interim president, has promised a "total break" with the past and hailed "a revolution of dignity and liberty." Mebazaa's remarks came as prosecutors opened a vast inquiry into the affairs of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the deposed president. Speaking on Tunisian state television on Wednesday, Mebazaa said there would be a complete separation between the state and political parties. Rejecting the ways of the previous government, he said "together we can write a new page in the history of our country". In his first public appearance since being sworn into office on Saturday, Mebazaa also vowed to ensure an amnesty for political prisoners, media freedoms and an independent judiciary. However, protests against the new government continued on Wednesday, with many Tunisians angry that several members of the previous government remain in office. "This all comes at a time when Tunisians are showing little patience with this government and saying that they don't really see radical change," Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra said, reporting from Tunis. "Therefore they are building up more momentum to see some of the ministers who were associated with Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali leave this government. "They are looking forward to a fresh start in Tunisia. They are saying that they have been betrayed by the old guard." Ben Ali probe On Wednesday, Tunisian investigators said they would look into the extensive domestic and foreign assets held by Ben Ali. Tunisian television also reported that 33 members of the deposed leader's family had been arrested on suspicion of "crimes against Tunisia". "Investigations will be carried out in order for them to face justice," a statement read out on state television said, citing an "official source". The Swiss government earlier said it had frozen Ben Ali's funds in Switzerland, as the country "wants to avoid our financial centre being used to hide funds illegally taken from the populations concerned," Micheline Calmy-Rey, the country's foreign minister, said. Tunisia's new government is to hold its first cabinet meeting on Thursday amid protests against the inclusion of old regime figures and for the abolition of Ben Ali's once all-powerful Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) party. Many Tunisians are angered by the continued presence of ministers from the RCD in government after the new cabinet was announced. In his speech, Mebazaa pointed to the fact that he and Mohamed Ghannouchi, the prime minister, had resigned from the RCD. Protests continued Negotiations over the inclusion of the main UGTT trade union in the new government have broken down, following the pull-out of its three ministers on Tuesday, who said they could not be part of a government "that includes symbols of the old regime," Abdessalem Jrad, secretary general of the UGTT, said. Ahelbarra said the government had only hours in which to convince the unions to rejoin the government, which could help to gain popular support. "They are desperate to patch together a strong coalition government," he said. "The biggest problem they are facing is that a lot of Tunisians still consider this government illegitimate. "And if those who walked out yesterday maintain their positions, this could be the beginning of the end of this coalition government." Meanwhile, the Tunisian government gave legal status to three parties barred under the previous administration and freed a dissident journalist, Fahem Boukadous, who was sentenced to four years in prison last year for his work. The central bank also took over a bank owned by Ben Ali's brother-in-law in the first such move against assets controlled by the former president's influential family, which formed the core of Tunisia's business elite. Tunisia's new leadership is due to hold democratic parliamentary and presidential elections in the next six months, although no dates have been set. Under the constitution, elections should be held in less than two months. 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