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Cleaning Up Indonesia's Legislature

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Mar 07, 2012
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It is fair to say that Indonesia’sHouse of Representatives, the national legislature, has an image problem.

Already 33 members of a single committee of the 530-person legislature have been sent to prison for accepting bribes in a single scandal. That involved votes sold in 2004 for a total of US$2.3 million to reelect as Indonesia’s deputy central bank g…

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