Indonesia president says corruption threatens economic growth
Aug
16, 2012 , 05:01 AM , from yahoo
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on
Thursday corruption is on the rise, even in parliament, in his most explicit
comments yet on a scourge that he warned threatened economic growth in Southeast Asia's largest economy. Corruption is widely seen as holding back the economy
and Yudhoyono has been criticized for letting the fight against it slow as he
comes towards the end of his second five-year term. A series of corruption
scandals have rocked the president's Democrat Party, weakening it in advance of
elections in 2014 when Yudhoyono will step down. ...
