Indonesia local government / Singapore private sector bribery / India Arbitration bill
A crisis of corruption: Integrity in Indonesian local government. “Indonesia fails to enforce a separation of the bureaucratic and political realms. Three specific laws put in place by politicians – Law 8/1974, Law 43/1999, and Law 5/2014 – have made public servants vulnerable to political intervention, as they assign heads of local government the authority to manage the bureaucracy directly, whether it be their career development, promotions, or appointments.”
Adfin Rochmad Baidhowah/Policy Forum: https://www.policyforum.net/a-crisis-of-corruption/
16 months' jail for businesswoman in $500k bribery case. “Malaysian Chuah Hooi Fong, 59, had earlier pleaded guilty to four counts of giving bribes to Leong Chee Shian, 50, a former IT director of logistics company Schenker (Asia Pacific)… Chuah's lawyer, Mr Edmond Pereira, said in mitigation that his client had initially rejected Leong's request for bribes, but later relented when she needed Leong's help to complete the projects in time.”
Dominic Low/The Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/16-months-jail-for-businesswoman-in-500k-bribery-case
Governance should be left to elected members accountable to legislature: Law min. “The [Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2021] seeks to ensure that all stakeholder parties get an opportunity to seek an unconditional stay of enforcement of arbitral awards where the underlying arbitration agreement or contract or making of the arbitral award are induced by fraud or corruption…Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government wants to make India a big hub for domestic and international arbitration.”