If you don't pay bribes, people think you're odd. It's very sad. I cannot say that I'm proud to be an Indonesian. This is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am still an Indonesian citizen.
In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own autocrat, Suharto, and I joined the new government when he left.
I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.
Bribes are not offered in such a way that you can prove them, and in order to prove that I didn't accept a bribe, I had to run.
The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.
Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.
Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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