party... oh... party

Driving to work from home this morning, I heard flashnews regarding the report published by Transparency International Indonesia that is reported by Ramako FM. It is stated that… Nope, everybody know already that Indonesia sits at the top list of most corrupted country, so I will not mention that again.
It is stated that IN Indonesia, the most corrupted institution is Political Party (no specific names was given, so I take it that all parties are alike), followed by Parliament (house of representatives, which is a turf for party members), Police (as institution, I believe), Customs (old story, I heard this long before when I was in elementary school, even before I heard about Transparency International) and Tax agency.

Just a few weeks a go I went on a duty to “see” a visit by parliamentary members to one of our ports in Sumatera. They went there within meeting recess period which was taking place in fasting month, holy month for Moslems, Moslems are obliged to do good things and kept away from bad things. Back on the berth when some members were asking about port operation and some were busy taking picture (of themselves), one of them approached and asked,” Are you coming from main office?” and I said “Yes, sir,” He went on with ,”Did you have what your president director asked you to bring?” So I answered ,”Of course, I brought company profile, presentations and souvenirs, things that I handed to you already, guys.” Without losing his breath, he snapped ,”That’s not what I meant. Your boss said that he will give us SOMETHING”. Well, that fragment made me smile when I heard the flashnews.