16 research outputs found
Corruption Eradication in Indonesia: The Experience of The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)
The focus of this paper is on the discussion and analysis of corruption eradication attempts in Indonesia with the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK), The Corruption Eradication Commission) as its centre. As an activity, the commencement of the corruption eradication dates to the pre-Reformation Era. However, its presence is mainly in the form of the foundation of the anti-corruption body without playing real roles as a nominal anti-corruption institution. As a response towards pressure from the IMF, in 2002 the Corruption Eradication Commission was formed as a specialized institution to tackle chronic corruption issues strangling Indonesia in the era of Soeharto’s New Order. Unfortunately, since its inception, there has been no president who is committed to the eradication attempts and therefore sided with the KPK. It is due to the commission’s huge constitutional power (investigation, probing, tapping, arrest, and prosecution) and hence these frighten many corrupt officials. Numerous political elites have been arrested by the KPK such as ministers, governors, regents, mayors and law-enforcers top officials. Consequently, unsurprisingly the KPK faces multi-directional attacks attempting at its weakening through the arrests of its top leaders, iterating its ad-hock (can be dissolved at any time.) status, and the revision of KPK law. Therefore, the government should act firmly to provide protection and supports to the KPK against those potential threats aiming at weakening the commission, to block any legislation potentially lessening the functions of the KPK, and to make sure both KPK’s top leaderships and average personnel are impartial and free of vested interests
A critical analysis on Housing And Development (Control And Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2012: criminalised abandonment of housing projects. / Mohamad Shahrizzat Amadan, Wan Ahmad Hijrah Wan Abdullah and Najwa Abd Malek
This research project is about our analysis on Housing Development (Control and Licensing) (Amendment) Act 2012, concerning criminalized abandonment of housing projects particularly. This research project was set to point out the weaknesses existing in our current law and its enforcement in punishing the licensed housing developers in errant who are responsible for housing projects abandonment in Malaysia substantively and procedurally. Since the new amendment of the Act provides a provision that allows house buyers to initiate criminal action against the developers who fails to finish a housing project within the time stipulated in the contract, the issue is that who will take responsibility and liability of the developer company, is it going to be the shareholders, the directors or even the secretary may be held liable when there is a criminal action against the developer company by the affected house buyers. Those issues concern with Company and Criminal law. This shows that our current and newly amended law is still weak and has flaws. Since we have pointed out the flaws in the provision, we tried to suggest few good laws that had been practised in advanced country as an example for Malaysia to adopt by making a comparison the Republic of Singapore in terms of the law and enforcement. Our research project aims to provide a little bit more of protection to the house purchasers in Malaysia so that there will be less cases of abandoned housing projects in Malaysia in the future
Researcher’s perspectives on halal supply chain management: definition and methodology
The Halal Industry is still in the stage of development and empowerment practices. The efforts to conduct the way forward in compliance with Islamic perspective (Shariah Laws) and desirable and necessary along the world. One of the problems facing the global halal industry is the lack of recognition halal certified products are viewed by Muslims as a mark of quality by the different halal certification bodies. With the diverse increasing demand towards halal food throughout the world but the integration of halal practices into supply chain processes in the under lacking coverage. The objective of this paper is to give a basic information in the definition of halal from the Shariah perspective and the researcher’s methodology used in their past research. The references from this desktop working research are allocate from the past research on halal supply chain management. By having the clear definition and methodology, the paper will conclude the easy way for others researcher to get clear understanding about the definition of halal and the other method using in the future studies