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SBY issues another ‘paper tiger’ to fight graft
Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 05/16/2011 11:35 PM A | A | A |
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued an instruction comprising action plans to eradicate and mitigate corruption, which was met with criticism given the increasing number of graft cases in his administration.

A presidential instruction signed by Yudhoyono last week ordered all state elements — especially the National Police, the Attorney General’s Office, the Law and Human Rights Ministry, the Finance Ministry, and the presidential Judicial Mafia Taskforce — to speed up investigations into corruption and intensify measures to prevent corruption practices.

Zainal Arifin Muchtar, the director of Gadjah Mada University’s Center for Anticorruption Studies expressed concerns that this could be another “paper tiger”.

“A series of instructions have been released but the government has failed to publicly present the results of previous instructions,” he added.

This is the third presidential instruction on corruption issued by the President this year, part of a long series of regulations, instructions and decrees he has issued since coming to power in his first term in 2004.

In January, Yudhoyono signed a presidential instruction focusing on accelerating investigations of tax fraud cases and corruption at the tax office. It was issued in the wake of a highly publicized tax graft case centering on former tax official Gayus H. Tambunan, which implicated law enforcement officials, a judge and senior tax officials.

Vice President Boediono, appointed to lead and monitor the implementation of both instructions, claimed the instructions were concrete developments of the government’s efforts to curb corruption.

Supporters claim this latest instruction expands on the country’s 2006 ratification of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).

“We don’t want to focus only on cases. These instructions are aimed at addressing more fundamental aspects in order to create systematic measures. The government wants to stop corruption at its roots,” Boediono said in a statement.

He acknowledged that the instructions focused on prevention rather than enforcement, “to address the root problems in order to establish a cleaner government”.

The latest instruction contains 102 action plan points addressing six areas: prevention, enforcement, harmonizing law and regulation, recovery of assets from acts of corruption, international cooperation and coordination mechanisms.

Indonesia scored 2.8 out of 10 on Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perception Index. The survey ranked Indonesia 110th out of 178 countries in 2010.

Vice presidential spokesman Yopie Hidayat said the series of presidential instructions would help the government reach its target of scoring 3 next year and 4.8 by 2014.

An increasing number of graft cases, however, have grabbed headlines and are under investigation by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), triggering criticism of the government’s claims. Some of the cases implicate key figures are close to those in power.

Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) coordinator Danang Widoyoko said the 2005 National Action Plans on Corruption Eradication failed to curb corruption and warned the government not to repeat such failures.

“[New regulations] contain more or less similar content to older ones, which lacked a strong and clear enforcement and monitoring mechanism,” he said. “Commitment is the most essential element to implementing the rules, otherwise these instructions are merely political tools to make Yudhoyono look good.”