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During August's Independence Day celebrations Indonesia granted reduced sentences for 444 people imprisoned for corruption
The Indonesian government should not grant remission to corruption convicts, the head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Busyro Muqoddas, said in an Idul Fitri sermon in Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s second largest city, the Jakarta Post reported.
“The government should treat corruption convicts the same way they treat terrorists, by not granting them remission, because those people who are guilty of corruption have caused massive damage to this country,” Busyro was quoted as saying.
Indonesia has given jail term remissions to graft convicts, most recently during the Independence Day celebrations in mid-August when 444 people who had been imprisoned for corruption received reduced sentences.
Idul Fitri is the celebration that comes at the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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