By: Ajeng Mufadillah)*
Pakistan is a modern country, as well as the state of Indonesia. Although the majority embraced Islam, Indonesia did not call it in the constitution. Not that issued the religion of life, but because Indonesia has expressed it in Pancasila, which became the spiritual teachings, moral and ethical grounding in the life of the nation.
Muhammad Natsir, Masjumi leader, during a speech at the Pakistan Institute for International Relations, Karachi, 1953. The speech was quoted Bung Karno and delivered in a public lecture to academicians of the University of Indonesia, May 7, 1953. Subject Bung Karno entitled “National State and Ideals Islam “is primarily intended to answer letters Ranuwihardjo Dahlan, Chairman of the Association of Islamic Students, which asks Pancasila and Islamic relations in the Republic of Indonesia.
Understanding and greatness of soul of the Founding Fathers in the knitting national foundation of a pluralistic nation that unfortunately is constantly crushed by mediocre politicians who seek to profit from the fertile sentiments of ethnicity, religion, race and intergroup (SARA). National awareness through breeding corruption issues in the primordial sense of the shallowness of the life history is a latent problem of stuttering dangerous when state officials and affirming philosophy animates the nation.
Abai priority
In the constellation and global interdependence, can hardly be denied that the rise of sectarianism is also closely related to the interests of transnational political economy. Multifaceted interests infiltrated in issues of local-national common symptoms proxy war with the target to divide the unity of the nation. Indonesia became a fertile ground for the abandonment of the settlement of various tragedies still dark in the past intertwined with poverty and inequality in the present.
The noise of political contestation and brought the racial issues that continually maintained and bred by politicians drowned priority issues of the nation. The structure of the fragile economy and causing severe damage to the 1997-1998 crisis not only failed to be corrected, instead focuses back on the class of the economic elite.
Corruption according to the concept of nationalism, a lot of product laws and regulations of the formulation of the new-born executive and legislative branches, not just open the gap of vulnerability, but rather be used to fertilize the privileged few groups that further widens the gap. The phenomenon of mimicry borrowers of Bank Indonesia Liquidity Assistance (BLBI) and a strong back monopolies, oligopolies constitute a serious setback and unacceptable reason. Remarkable peculiarity of this post-reform shows malfunction political parties in encouraging the democratization process of political-economy.
Similarly, the establishment of 20 state commissions, 12 quasi-state institutions, and 29 boards / institution at the state commission has not significantly escort and represents the principles of democracy and good governance, especially transparency, accountability, equality, and justice. Big appetite to form a variety of infrastructure of democracy without the ability to deeply meaning substance of democracy shows that damage the intersection of diverse interests.
Severe inequality always stems from the policy is unfair, does not meet the essential needs of the largest part of the people. The budget allocation in large numbers to overcome poverty, for example, requires a new road map carefully and change the “radical” line and conventional distribution.
For decades, the distribution of funds Community Development Partnership Program (CSR) SOE and various types of business credit (KUR) is always less effective, but not evaluated and corrected total. The high bad debts, allocation of more small businesses to non-productive, the lack of business incubators, and weak risk guarantee schemes are a series of classic issue that cannot be overcome. Therapy business as usual and a lazy approach to the alleviation of poverty as long as this continues to “hide” the key problem in the institutions and target groups.
Marginal group that is untouched aid scheme and should be the main target is generally scattered and not consolidated. Adjacent to the input of science (technology and skills) and management (corporate governance) should have been assembled in a single package of policies to reduce poverty.
Relationships corruption-poverty
Eradication and prosecution of corruption have so far been limited to individual players or groups is limited, not reaching the corporate network or that systemic and entrenched. Operation catching hand (OTT) against one of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court (MK) by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in the bribery case related to the judicial review of Law No. 41 of 2014 concerning Animal Husbandry and Animal Health and also cases OTT involving a chairperson party in 2013 have not touched the rigging business rents beef imports were considered laden affair. As a result, for decades the consumer becomes a victim and cattle farm folk difficult to develop.
Similar practices occur in mining, agriculture, forestry, and marine are all closely related to licensing. The massive national assets and the area by several companies abstruse happen without the involvement of many parties. Functioning of systemic corruption in this strategic sector entail the structured inequality and poverty.
Conspiracy-ruling politician-businessman repeatedly revealed and is a common characteristic profile of corruption in Indonesia. Compounding interest between them ravage the order, has a serious impact is very broad and terrible, especially if it is associated with the control of natural resources that should be used for the greatest prosperity of the people.
On the other hand, the performance of the Commission, police, and prosecutors in uncovering cases of corruption (Corruption) is very limited. Police 1300-1400 average handle corruption cases per year, the prosecutor’s 300 cases and KPK only 30-35 cases per year. Capacity constraints and the distribution of cases corruption is less focus on three law enforcement agencies that led to the eradication of corruption has not become a massive movement, scalable, and integrated.
Strengthening the capacity and handling operations strategy formulation corruption often overshadowed worries are not sterile breaker justice institutions, such as the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, of political interference. Also the authority of the audit, the BPK. Obtaining a deterrent effect on the perpetrators of corruption will be difficult to come by when there is no synergy between the law enforcement agencies.
Report of Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said that the sentence criminals from year to year is mild, the judge sentenced to an average of 2 years and 1 month during January-June 2016 from 325 cases (384 defendants). Trends light sentence in corruption was not much change in different levels of the court from 2012 to 2016.
Become clear, preventing and combating crime exceptional this will still take a long, steep, and winding. Fight back (corruption fight back) of the perpetrators of corruption and cronies through a variety of ways-such as by revising Law Commission-also never subsided. However, one thing is certain, the failed state would be impossible to eradicate corruption can bring prosperity for its people.
)* The author is CIDISS contributor
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