With the ministry’s reputation at stake, Mulyani, known for her intolerance of IN BRIEF cronyism and corruption, sacked the tax officer in question and ordered investigations into employees The finance ministry’s recent clampdown on apparent suspected of incorrect or false reporting of personal corruption within the department was prompted by a assets, money laundering, and tax evasion. [...] The assault case, implicating the son, led to public outrage over The tax scandal has eroded public trust in the finance the brutality of the alleged assault. [...] The calls for dismissals were brought forward by the Labour Party and the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions during their demonstrations at the Indonesian parliament and the offices of the Ministry of Finance. [...] Aside from the dismissals, the protests also demanded the creation According to Transparency International’s latest of a fact-finding team to investigate the current annual report, released this February, Indonesia state of Indonesia’s tax system and the legislation dropped 14 spots on the Corruption Perception Index of an asset disclosure and transparency law for (CPI) for 2022, placing 110th out. [...] The trend reflects the worsening corruption situation in Indonesia, Produced by CAST’s Southeast Asia team: caused by the weakening of the country’s Corruption Stephanie Lee (Program Manager) Eradication Commission and the lack of oversight stephanie.lee@asiapacific.ca; Alberto Iskandar on mass infrastructure development projects in the (Analyst); Saima Islam (Analyst); Tim Siao (Analyst).
- Pages
- 2
- Published in
- Canada
