The problems with combating corruptions in my part, which includes all the third world countries, is that those in power today are either collaborators or have worked under those corrupt officials and the only way of doing business they know as the result is that that corrupt way. It is not that the people are just plain ignorant of what's really going on with the goverment or that the people don't care about combating corruputions or that people don't want clean government, but it is just that some bad practices are so embedded in our traditions that it is very hard to get rid of unless we have a leader who is personally accountable to his action. Lack of accountable, not collective accountability but individual accountability and lack of transparency, no one truly knows how much money is spent on what kind of projects, who are the contractors, who gets the businesses; this lack of transparency and lack of individual accountability followed by appropriate action is killing us all.

kb, yangon, myanmar

This incredible and ridiculous ruling clearly shows that corruption is nearly impossible to get rid of in some countries.
I would sooner believe Hitler had nothing to do with the Second World War than Shurato's family not guilty of corruption. Why the Supreme Court in Indonesia chose to make the country's judicial system a laughing stock to the world is beyond me. Perhaps the corrupt officials reckon they can get away with anything and they are so powerful and arrogant that they treat their people and the opinions of the world with contempt. It is not surprising that Indonesia is constantly regarded as one of the most corrupt nations in the world.

Peter, Poole, UK