So Many Criminals increasingly Officials

Vice Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Bibit Samad Riyanto said, today more and more criminals become officials. It is the result of the rampant practice of money politics in local elections. These conditions have an impact on the difficulty of eradicating corruption in Indonesia.

"Do not select the criminals become officials. However, now that so many criminals officials. Our political system is loaded money politics make corruption more difficult," Bibit said while giving direction to the 234 new graduates of Professional Accountancy Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) in Graha Sabha Pramana, Saturday (06/25/2011).

According to Seed, the practice of money politics that the community were taught pragmatism in choosing the head region. In fact, the elected head of the region because of politics the money is likely to become criminals because they want to return the money issued during the election.

"In addition, we also find, that the more officials also are rich because of the grant," he said.

Seeds admit, the experience over the past three years as deputy head of the Commission, corruption in Indonesia continued to occur in a systematic and extends to all sectors. Ditumbulkannya consequences not only detrimental to state finances, but also socio-economic rights of the community.

"Corruption is an extraordinary crime, so that eradication was also widely used to do. Corruption is still rampant and massive corruption in the society because it is considered the norm. Starting from the maintenance of existing driver's license ID cards to corruption," he said.

The amount of corruption is also marked by the large number of public complaints to the Commission.

"Complaints are submitted to the Commission reached 48,206 complaints. Reports coming from almost every strata of society," he said.

Seeds believe, corruption in Indonesia is a phenomenon of the iceberg in the ocean, which often revealed only a small part of reality. According to him, the role of accountants will be increasingly important in efforts to eradicate corruption in Indonesia. That's because the accountant can audit how the value of losses incurred from the State of corrupt practices. In fact, accountants are also capable of mitigating and preventing corruption.

"For that, the accountant must have integrity and competence, not to be used to manipulate financial data. Since many corruption cases that the mode with inflation and manipulation of financial data," he said