"Now we can see clearly the map of political parties in the House of Representatives (DPR). We are surprised that Gerindra (Great Indonesia Movement Party) turned out to be part of them only because it can enjoy a short-term benefit," Adhie M Massardi, coordinator of the Clean Indonesia Movement (GIB), said here on Wednesday.
He said that since the beginning civil society groups had taken distance from the political forces in Senayan (the DPR). They deliberately ignored using public pressures as they did when the House was processing an inquiry during the Bank Century bailout scandal.
Massardi, who was a presidential spokesman during president Abudrrahman Wahid`s era, said that public pressures were not used to push the tax mafia inquiry because the public wanted to see which political parties were willing to safeguard the nation and which had become part of the tax mafia.
He admitted however that inquiry was not the only means that could be used to uncover tax mafia in the country.
"But with the inquiry, it could at least discover the dons in the body of a tax mafia such as what had been discovered during the House inquiry into the Rp6.7 trillion worth Bank Century bailout scandal," Massardi said.
He said that sooner or later, the people would find their way how to disclose evils in this country. "The fact now is that it is difficult to do so, even if by means of political channels, let alone by other means such as legal ones," he said.
The House of Representatives (DPR) in its plenary meeting on Tuesday evening rejected a proposed tax mafia inquiry motion through voting with 266 legislators against and 264 others in favor of the proposal.
(Uu.A014/R013)
Editor: Priyambodo RH
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