Terrible to be treated that way for helping somebody

relaxnow

The copper even told him i will help you and this the thanks he got :D:p:p. Terrible to be treated this way for helping somebody

PERtoDPS

The copper even told him i will help you and this the thanks he got :D:p:p. Terrible to be treated this way for helping somebody

Get news! Finally something is getting done about rampant corruption. Good job on the bodycam. I wonder if the youtuber who posted this originally is aware I think he goes by style kenji or something like that?

Markit

Maybe we should be a little more careful with out expletives? "Rampant" for corruption in Indonesia is no longer the case and hasn't been since I've been here. Now I'd use "Endemic" as corruption is pretty much restricted to a few parts of law enforcement and politics with the rest of the economy largely free of it. And "endemic" fits the modern viral society we now seem to be living in much better. Corruption is really on it's way out and I, for one, will be slightly sorry to see it go. If for no other selfish reason than it does allow those with money to "grease the skids" of life to their advantage. Morally corrupt, I know, but still useful occasionally.

PERtoDPS

Markit wrote Maybe we should be a little more careful with out expletives? "Rampant" for corruption in Indonesia is no longer the case and hasn't been since I've been here. Now I'd use "Endemic" as corruption is pretty much restricted to a few parts of law enforcement and politics with the rest of the economy largely free of it. And "endemic" fits the modern viral society we now seem to be living in much better. Corruption is really on it's way out and I, for one, will be slightly sorry to see it go. If for no other selfish reason than it does allow those with money to "grease the skids" of life to their advantage. Morally corrupt, I know, but still useful occasionally.

Fair call. I do apologise you live there not me(well for right now anyway) so most likely you'd know better than I do. We only need to look at the banking systems in Australia to see corruption exists in places where it really shouldn't I think both Westpac and Commbank have been investigated and fined in recent years and the sums of money involved were astronomical. Yet I will say as recently as last year I was aware of certain things you could pay to attain like drivers licences without sitting any kind of test. I can't see that happening in Australia. So while corruption is less, it's not gone and I suspect with the current COVIT BROKEN or "new normal" economy there is going to be people willing to do things for money they once weren't purely due to desperation. So yes perhaps I should probably edit my post to endemic. Good call Mark IT.

harryopal

PERtoDPS wrote Fair call. .... both Westpac and Commbank have been investigated and fined in recent years and the sums of money involved were astronomical. Yet I will say as recently as last year I was aware of certain things you could pay to attain like drivers licences without sitting any kind of test. I can't see that happening in Australia. ......

I can recall several instances of driver licence bribery cases in Australia across the years. And as you point out with the banks and quite recently many cases of very large organization systematically underpaying staff, there is no denying that Australia also has a substantial experience with corruption. An important difference is that with a higher overall living standard there is less pressure for people to seek an advantage in taking bribes. In a way it is the petty corruption that has a greater demoralizing impact where simple things like utility connections cannot be made without paying "soda" money or "lunch money". Indonesia has certainly made great strides dealing with this petty corruption which impacts hardest on the poorest. In the three and a half years I have been here I am happy to say I have experienced no overt attempts to get something extra from police, immigration or other service areas.

Markit

At almost any mainstream bank you scratch the surface and find a cesspool of money laundering, tax avoidance schemes and illegal investments in drugs, corruption, politics, healthcare and real estate - I could go on and on and on. We read again and again how finance houses are blasted to pay huge (900+ million HSBC recently) fines (who gets that money?). "Shares of European banks fell sharply Monday after the release by BuzzFeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists of thousands of documents seemingly showing that some $2 trillion worth of illicit funds were moved and laundered through the U.S. financial system over two decades. The papers show that five global banks kept doing business with “oligarchs, criminals and terrorists” even after being fined by U.S. authorities for earlier failures to clamp down on dirty money. The reports are based on leaked suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by banks and other financial firms with the U.S. Department of Treasury." Full article here: https://www.barrons.com/articles/global-banks-hit-by-new-corruption-allegations-51600691347 Until this is changed in the west who are we to point fingers at harmless little Indonesia about some daft police attempting to better their meager pay with some creative "taxes" - if the Bule is so stupid to agree to pay that shit then who's really at fault?