Almost a thousand years ago, a major figure during the Song Dynasty in China, Wang An Shih (1021-1086), warned, there are two sources of corruption that always repeats itself, that is bad law and bad people.
History proves impossible to save the government by just leaning on the law to control officials, while they were not the right man for the job, "said Wang.
That statement bothered us when combating corruption meet the test. A few days ago, a number of corruption convicts get remission, pardon, and free. Of the 58 400 prisoners granted clemency, 341 of them convicted of corruption. Some of them are former Bank Indonesia officials, such as T Aulia Pohan, Bunbunan Hutapea, Aslim Tadjuddin, and Maman Soemantri, and former regent of Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan, Syaukani HR.
Despite whatever the reason, the exemption is considered to injure people's sense of justice. Chairman of the Indonesian Rectors Forum Advisory Council Edy Suandi Hamid said the granting of pardon and remission was the paradox with various attitudes or statements by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that the corruptor as the great enemy of the nation. "It injures the conscience of the people who are victims of corrupt practices," said Edy.
Liberation was hampering efforts to eradicate corruption. In fact, the government is always touting the war against corruption. In fact, in a joint session of the DPR and DPD, 16 August, the President said had been carrying out anti-corruption programs in a systemic, continuous, starting from the top, and indiscriminately.
However, the forgiveness of convicted of corruption are perceived conflict with the war against corruption (corrupt, corruptie, corruptio) a significant decay, ugliness, depravity. "It's a bad precedent for the eradication of corruption in the future," said Syarifuddin Sudding, member of Commission III of the House of People's Conscience Party (Hanura).
Runyamnya, in corruption cases, most convicts may be regarded as a mild punishment. For example, the proven corruption Syaukani USD 49.367 billion, serving only three years of six-year sentence. Nurdin Halid, General Chairman of Indonesian Distribution Cooperative, was sentenced to two years in prison (an appeal) for a total corruption of Rp 169.7 billion. Recently a former prosecutor Urip Tri Gunawan, who allegedly received bribes worth Rp 6.1 billion, which was sentenced to 20 years.
More severe when compared to the punishment received little thief. Corrupter of public money to dredge a better fate than the small thief who stolen. It's unfair to compare with the punishment of the little people who steal because of "forced" due to entanglement of poverty, not because of greed. For example, a case that struck Manisih (40) and Sri Suratmi (19), who was sentenced to one month in jail in the District Court of Batang, Central Java, in January last, because it proved to be stealing a sack of cotton fruit (weight 14 kg) for Rp 12,000.
Although can not be measured mathematically, let's make the comparison just for fun. For stolen USD 12 000, must be punished Manisih 30 days. This means that daily penalty equal to the value of the stolen USD 400. Compare with Syaukani. If the value of USD 49.367 billion to corruption sentence served three years, equivalent to the daily punishment of corruption around Rp 45 million. If compared with the case of Nurdin Halid, more is not fair anymore. If the value of USD 169.7 billion convicted of corruption for two years (approximately 730 days), the corruption of Rp 232 million a day just punished.
The comparison was not part of the legal material. However, we can get a picture, who stole a dime Manisih USD 400 sentenced to 24 hours. The same punishment received Syaukani which USD 45 million, or draining the dredge Nurdin USD 232 million. Only the sharp sword of the law on the little guy, but dull on the people in power?
Law enforcement
In this context, the role of law enforcement is essential. They are afraid of hurting justice instead reluctantly holding that heavy responsibility. Acts rejection magistracy (qazi) in the time of the Abbasid dynasty in Iraq, especially during the Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mansur and Al-Mahdi, maybe could be an important record. Jurists, such as Sofyan Tsauri (715-778) or the Abu Hanifa (669-767), are equally rejected magistracy. According to Syed Hussein Alatas in the book Sociology of Corruption, it reflects an attitude against corruption is most obvious.
However, in this country just the opposite. In the case of tax officials, Gaius HP Tambunan, for example, law enforcement instead agreed that "corruption in congregation." In fact, the same time, this nation energy poured out to fight corruption. There should be no tolerance towards corruption.
Corruption is an extraordinary crime (extra ordinary crimes) and crimes against humanity (crimes against humanity). Many people tangled in poverty because money that should be dripped into them eaten by people in power.
Warning Wang An Shih provide an opportunity for us to be fair in enforcing the law and improve its human morals. If the half-hearted, this country can really be rotten.
By: Subhan SD
Source: www.kompas.com
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