Comments: Boycotting of budget hearings

March 10, p. 1

(News Terupdate) - Legislators at the House of Representatives are considering boycotting future hearings with Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, claims one parliamentarian, in the latest fallout from the inquiry into the Bank Century bailout.
House budget committee chairman Hari Azhar Azis, from the Golkar Party, told The Jakarta Post Tuesday that some committee members had “lost faith” in Mulyani following the House’s adoption last week of a resolution that could lead to a criminal investigation into the finance minister as well as Vice President Boediono for engineering the November 2008 bailout.

Your comments:
Of course the PDI-P is behind this. They appear to be hunting her down till the end, supported by some adventurous House members. Their logic is purely political.
Hopefully, it will not get wider support. Legal measures are being taken, by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the
police and the Attorney General’s Office (AGO), so everybody has to calm down.
This republic has already been too noisy and not productive enough. Please, DPR members, make yourselves more useful, and accept whatever the result will be.
Desaputra
Jakarta
Boycott is a good word. It starts with “boy” meaning laki-laki in Indonesian. House members who plan to boycott the hearing with Sri Mulyani are not “boys”, in other words, they are not laki-laki. Sri Mulyani is going to the House to settle and serve the people’s interests, not her own. Similarly, House members should go to the parliament building to work and serve the people’s interests.
If Sri Mulyani is willing to do it while the parliament members are refusing to do their job then they should just go home, go to bed, and sweets dreams. Sri Mulyani is legally still Indonesia’s finance minister. She has a job to do. Let her do her job. Let her explain her plans.
If her plans are not feasible, unworkable, or will bring the people down to poverty and misery, meet her and tell her so, do not boycott the meeting. Show us your guts, not your butts! There are so many problems to be solved. Get to work, my honorable members of parliament.
Agus Satoto
Bekasi, West Java

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