EDITORIAL
Limit Cash Transactions, Not the KPK
In the past, then-Finance Minister Syafruddin Prawiranegara was not tempted to take state money. His wife, Halimah, sold fried breadfruit to make a living.
A reporter photographs a car confiscated by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) at the official residence of Agung Ilmu Mangku Negara, the North Lampung regent in Lampung, Monday (7/10/2019). The KPK arrested the North Lampung regent and five officials in the North Lampung regency administration and one intermediary.
In the past, then-Finance Minister Syafruddin Prawiranegara was not tempted to take state money. His wife, Halimah, sold fried breadfruit to make a living.
In the past, former Attorney General Baharuddin Lopa expressed rage at a regent who used state funds to fill his tank with gasoline, demanding that he empty it.
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