Bribery Corruption Bureaucracy Octopus Sesmenpora Symbols

The case of bribery which dragged the Secretary to the Minister of Youth and Sports (Sesmenpora) Wafid Muharram became a symbol of corrupt practices are also lodged in the bureaucracy. Reforms since 12 years ago in fact do not touch the bureaucracy. Precisely state faces increasingly severe with the ministries, filled by political party cadres.

Muharram in the unfolding case Wafid Ministry of Youth and Sports should embarrass SBY's administration. Because the campaign, including claims for this jargon associated eradication of corruption in government ranks only pepesan empty. More irony again, the practice actually takes place in the office kongkalingkong ministry official.

Observers bureaucracy Roy V Solomon assess corrupt practices in place to institutionalized bureaucracy, massive, involving many people and has become a habit in order to improve welfare.

"For example, Secretary General of the Ministry asked that no allotment of various projects aimed at tactical funds, to THR, urgent need of employees. This is happening today," he said.

He stressed that the reform of the bureaucracy that had claimed to have been run by the government in fact is still difficult to materialize. Because the fact is, according to the faculty of University of Indonesia (UI), the characteristics of bureaucracy are still feudal, corrupt, and self-serving rather than for service to the public.

"If you want to eradicate corruption, there must be a strong desire of the leaders, the elite bureaucracy, government elites, political elites and the government in the regional parliament. Without a strong will can not. In fact there is a strong will not. That there is a will to inherit an already walk, "he said.

Above conditions like that, Roy surmised, bribery case Sesmenpora Wafid Muharram is also thought to involve at least known by his superiors that no other Minister of Youth and Sports Andi Mallarangeng. "I wonder if the minister does not know (graft), but if you pretend not to know, can not," he said.

He claimed to have information at echelon I of a ministry, the Secretary-General in a ministry there is a demand from the minister to raise his superior tactical funds from ministers who come from political parties. He said such practice was conducted minister because of the demands of political parties and the proposal needs underbouw party.

"Minister under the disposition to any proposals that go with writing 'please help', Secretary General of the Ministry understands, so secretary general and then charges it to everyone who has a project," he explained.

Roy asserted, to cut the octopus of corruption in the bureaucracy of the center to bottom there should be a strong political will of its leaders. He pointed out, changes must be done from above the top-down nature. "But do not expect a change in the current bureaucracy, for which there is a change that appears on the surface only, not substantive," he said.

He also expects external oversight agencies such as the Financial Supervisory Agency (BPK) and Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPK) to audit the total of each ministry in the United Indonesia Cabinet (KiB) II. In this way is expected to be the first step to clean the bureaucracy. Although Roy admitted pessimistic about the power of CPC is not adequate.

Earlier, Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Busyro Muqoddas mention bribery case involving a crime Sesemenpora structurally related to power. "Preliminary results indicate the perpetrators not only will stop at three suspects because there is crime-related structural power in it," he said in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday (10/05/2011).

According to him, cases of bribery related to the construction of Wisma SEA Games Athletes to-26 in Kilkenny it is called structural because the perpetrators of crimes who are in the process of investigation involved with power. "They are involved with power," he said.

President SBY is often argued would lead immediately to eradicate corruption is better internal memberesi soon reign. However, bribery that occurred in Sesmenpora happen in the ring in his administration. Not elsewhere. We await concrete President SBY.