break the cycle: how corruption starts
The Yogyakarta governor has set the 2010 minimum wage for workers at Rp 745,694 per month... [which is] 90 percent of the average fair living cost for people in the province.
Is this decision so dodgy that it should be investigated by the KPK? Why would the governor set the minimum wage so low? Is he just stupid, or is someone else pulling the (purse) strings?
It's probably neither. My guess is that the governor has his eyes on the budget, and whether he can afford and the impact of increasing locally government wages.
The problem is, if government employees are not paid enough money, they will look elsewhere. This is how corruption starts.
Minister Sri Mulyani understands this. She replacing the Finance Ministry's ridiculous rank-based pay system, with a performance-based pay system. The better you do, the more money you make.
We must break the cycle.
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