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10049
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LIRA; 40 PCT OF STATE BUDGET ALWAYS LOST BY CORRUPTION
Bangkalan, Madura, June 14 (ANTARA) - About 40 percent of Indonesia's annual state budget is always lost because of corrupt acts committed by persons in the government's bureaucracy, a non-governmental organization (NGO) activist said.
Information and data on the corruption cases had been submitted to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for further checking and investigation, said Yusuf Rizal, president of Lumbung Informasi Rakyat (LIRA).
"Therefore, we will continue to watch over and monitor closely the spending of state budget funds by all government agencies. We do it so that our country will be freed from this dangerous disease called corruption," Rizal said at a regional LIRA working conference at a hotel in Bangkalan on Saturday.
He said LIRA would continue to recruit new members from among the public and thus widen its networks to absorb as much information as possible on government agencies' behavior in the spending of public funds.
LIRA had set itself the target of recruiting as many as 29,000 new members until 2009 while it now only had 7,000 members spread in a number of districts and towns across Indonesia.
The greater its membership, the more LIRA could do to help eradicate corruption in the country, Rizal said.
Information and data on the corruption cases had been submitted to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for further checking and investigation, said Yusuf Rizal, president of Lumbung Informasi Rakyat (LIRA).
"Therefore, we will continue to watch over and monitor closely the spending of state budget funds by all government agencies. We do it so that our country will be freed from this dangerous disease called corruption," Rizal said at a regional LIRA working conference at a hotel in Bangkalan on Saturday.
He said LIRA would continue to recruit new members from among the public and thus widen its networks to absorb as much information as possible on government agencies' behavior in the spending of public funds.
LIRA had set itself the target of recruiting as many as 29,000 new members until 2009 while it now only had 7,000 members spread in a number of districts and towns across Indonesia.
The greater its membership, the more LIRA could do to help eradicate corruption in the country, Rizal said.
