"In order to make it easier for foreigners to take control over Indonesia`s natural wealth, they bribe politicians and government officials so that they would produce regulations which WOULD serve their interest," Hendri Saparini said here on Saturday.
Speaking to a discussion on "My Country Under the Shackles of Corruptors," Hendri said that in the enforcement of such laws which were pro-foreigners, the aim of the national economic policies were diverted.
She said that there were many laws which were pro-foreigners which would disadvantage the Indonesian people in the long run. She cited as an example Law No. 30 / 2007 on the mining sector.
The mining law among others stipulates that the mining sector could be under the control of foreigners up to 95 percent.
She said the clause in the law should be revised because it would harm the interest of the Indonesian people in the long run.
Hendri said that companies also often gave bribes to officials in order to obtain mining licenses.
"This is saddening because the licenses they got by way of bribing, were later sold to other businesses with a higher price," she said.
Therefore, she said, the government should evaluate the implementation of the mining licenses, whose number reached 6,000, to check their designations.
On the occasion, Hendri Saparini called on politicians to have, deepen and maintain their nationalism vision, namely by giving priorities to national interest in the long run.
"They should not give priorities to pragmatic interest for the short term," she said.(*)
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Editor: Ruslan Burhani
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