"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono needs `special courage` to eradicate corruption in Indonesia," Siti Zuhro, Ph.D., a politician researcher of Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) said here Friday.
The rampant corruptions in the central and local governance depicted the weak law enforcement and surveillance in the nation, she said.
According to her, President should escort the corruption eradication by giving special attention and firm instructions to the law enforcement officials and institutions to conduct the duties consistently and independently.
"President`s leadership is very crucial in corruption eradication and mafia. Therefore, President Yudhoyono should act firmly and pose indiscriminate manner to any possible involvement of elites behind any corruption case," she said.
The success of corruption eradication could only be made by leaders who have strong leadership and capacity in making political breakthrough without any fear of losing popularity due to his decision that is considered to handicap certain elites, Siti said.
The threats of political maneuvers from certain elites could be nullified if there are great supports from people and all institutions to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), she said, adding that the support would raise KPK`s morale to keep consistent in corruption eradication.
According to the Transparency International Ranking 2010, Indonesia sits in 110 rank with score 2.8 of 200 countries.
The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).
Denmark, New Zealand and Singapore are tied at the top of the list with a score of 9.3, followed closely by Finland and Sweden at 9.2.
Bringing up the rear is Somalia with a score of 1.1, slightly trailing Myanmar and Afghanistan at 1.4 and Iraq at 1.5.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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