Once there was a man walking on a beach full of millions of starfish that had been carried to the shore
By the tides…and he was picking them up 
One by one and throwing them back in water…
A passerby saw him and laughed…
THERE ARE MILLIONS! You can’t save them all you idiot…!
” Well atleast I have made a DIFFERENCE to the lives of a few.

From this we can say there are two types of people in the society. One type which works for the benefit of the society and the other type which doesn’t benefit the society in anyway. The second type of people are the ones who are blinded by greed and will do anything for their selfish motives. The extent of their greed makes them do the worst of the worst. They end up killing for a living. You may wonder who I am pointing out at. Well I am critcizing all the doctors in my country, India who follow the policy of gender determination and female foeticide. Millions of girls in our country are kicking at blank walls even before birth. The most shocking fact is that it isn’t the rural doctors who are responsible for this. The doctors responsible for this organised crime are the city bred, well educated and supposedly responsible doctors. Being educated they know that their mother was a girl. Girls are literally the source of life all over the world. That is why the earth or India is referred to as Mother Earth or Bharat Mata respectively. India is the centre of many social customs and religion, is what i agree but those days are gone. We cant say that girls are the weaker sex and they dont deserve any respect. It may be believed that in Indian families a male child is essential for upholding the families name and they are a great help to their aged parents, But the truth is many male children end up settling abroad or even forgetting their parents, The girls are the ones who help their aged parents though they be married or working. For them top priority is family then whatever may come. Being a teenager I may not be able to have much impact by writing a simple article like this but whoever reads this may feel ashamed that a simple 16 year can understand more than people who have lived half a century or more. Well its time to wake up India! The scenario may seem hopeless but there is that ray of hope always lingering somewhere or the other. In Kerala the girls to boys ratio is 1084:1000. Lets take inspiration from this and prevent any further discrimination.

Was the world a better place to live before? Or was it the same but we were unaware of the incidents. With the advent of internet and fast paced social networking sites, all the information is available for us.

Life is an enigma and centuries have past by since we started understanding it. Why is it so difficult for a person to live a normal life? Newly laid down roads are filled pit potholes after the first rain, the rent of apartments have skyrocketed, the price of every commodity has increased except for hard work. Honesty and modesty have been sold out. You don’t find principled people anymore.

i think you can say it was so impossible

but it was the fact

Salute for Endah rahmanto

The honestly corruptor, Endah Rahmanto

In front of the court of Criminal acts of corruption, Semarang, The village chief Klodran, colomadu, Karanganyar, Endah Rahmanto admit that he make corruption. he did not defend his doing. he even make his pleading which was entitled “A admission of corruptor”. He said with any reason, he is still corruptor which had harm his country, a society, his family and his himself so he is not deserved to defend his self..

He was accused had corrupted the budget of Klodran village during 2007 until 2009 , 285 million (IDR).  He gives us a good lesson..His another reason, he said that he was the one actor..He is leader and because of that only he can be punished for the corruption and the another lesson, he ask for the judge for giving sentenced him as heavy as possible.

of course he is still corruptor, but he is rare corruptor not only in Indonesia, but in the world..

His action should make many corruptor with a bigger budget shy and embarrassed..He had no strong political power and access like Gayus Tambunan and M Nazaruddin but he is sure that his hard sentence can’t erase his mistake when corruption…

it was good point and good news if there are many corruptor try to admit that Yes , iam making corruption…

Many businesses today have no real understanding of ethics. They sell products or services to make the most money in the shortest amount of time and have little or no concern for the safety or quality of the services or goods they are producing. For us to move forward in a rewarding way we must reintroduce strong morals to the world. Morals such as doing things to better everyone, making an honest living, and appreciating the things you have instead of being monetarily motivated. Also, we must correct things like stealing from one other and the corruption in corporate businesses that just spread the disease of dishonesty, disloyalty, and lack of care for anyone but themselves. This just causes an increase in inadequate business practices and the corruption of society and family values. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State, writes in her book It Takes a Village, that a child is not just raised by his/her parents but by society as well. Regardless if you agree or not with her political views, the concept of society growing together is a fundamental principle of the past that we need to incorporate back into today’s practice. Today’s businesses must see that their actions are effecting future generations to come, and that every business deal is not just a short term way of making money but something that teaches people. We must be accountable to our responsibility to each other . In life, people typically repeat what they have learned from those around them. They think that is how things are done, by learning from those that have gone before them but also by losing the moral fiber that formed those decisions. In the end, CEO’s of businesses should take hold of learning the moral fiber in order to lead to better ethics in both industry and society.

This brings us to the production and quality of products the industries are creating on the basis of making money and not on the safety of the consumer. Companies are just barely passing the safety requirements for cars, toys, food, and jewelry. They don’t try to go above and beyond to satisfy the consumer. They think if everyone is just doing the minimal requirements then people have no where to go but one of their companies. Some are pushing the limit on a product or service that is just not safe. In the world today people are starting to realize that we have the technology to make things better, for example we’ve created more fuel efficient cars, organic foods, and have been able to sustain society without destroying natural resources that are homes to wildlife. As a result, the industries are driven to improve their product to do more than just satisfy the consumer. These things cost companies more money and prevent the potential growth of these companies. On the other hand, driving beyond doing just the minimum can increase life expectancy, protect the environment, and save people and future generations money. But to make it work these industries need to understand that their actions effect the future and present as well as about improving the quality of life and not just making a couple extra dollars because you used filler in a food. Industries don’t realize the things that they add in food, toys, and jewelry can cause brain diseases, cancer, and sickness that can have long term effects and are left at the feet of those who ignored the rule of creating the best product. People don’t understand that spending the extra dollar for a better, healthier future is worth it and it’s not just all about the money. If things aren’t reverted to the traditional way of life then products will eventually just wither away into something with the quality of a prize in the bottom of a cereal box, cheap, small and of no real value.

Society has changed substantially from the traditional ideals. Many people no longer base their lives on honesty, integrity and other important morals but on selfish motivation that has occurred from the corruption of these principles. People based on the change in fundamentals no longer do things for other people but now only think about themselves and how they can make themselves happier. The first thing in improving our society is to teach people that they aren’t supposed to think just about themselves but about others around them. To do this you must start these teachings from the ground up. This means that the new generations to come need to be taught correct morals and values in everyday life. When society focuses on the improvement as a whole, the individual will have a better quality of life. Society needs to work together to improve and renew people more so that the quality of person as a whole will increase, thus creating a better lifestyle as a whole for everyone. In context if we want our children to have a sustainable environment for the future we must teach them how to be an honorable person so that they may pass their ethics down to the children and continue the process of rebuilding society as we know it.

The world needs to completely revamp the way things are done if the future is going to hold a sustainable future that will be good for both our children and grandchildren. We all want something better for the generations to come but most people don’t act on this and they just expect it to happen. To improve the future you must first better yourself and understand that repeating the same action but expecting different results is the definition of insanity. But for this to happen you need to admit that you are part of the problem and say to yourself that you will do what it takes to improve the future so that many people will be able their enjoy lives for years to come. The traditional ideologies in business, industry and society need to be resurrected in a way that we have a revolution regarding the way people go about their day to day activities with a sense of values and not of greed and personal gain. For us to sustain a enjoyable future in which holds morals, we must completely alter our way of dealing with business, industry and society.

What if one day they can occupy strategic positions and wet. So they stayed improve their creativity to corruption. The point is just a matter of chance, which means the act of the legislature and its application is not the prevention and eradication measures (preventive).

Case of Corruption, collusion and nepotism that befall many officials, both from the executive, judicial and legislative branches to demonstrate not only mandulnya Act No. 28 of 1999, of the Operator State Clean and Free from Corruption, collusion and nepotism, but also increasingly the order of the values ​​of social life. Cases of alleged corruption involving ministers, former ministers, governors, former governors, regents, former regents and others show that state officials are expected to be a role model for the wider community about the rule of law and social order, it turns out they actually have to sit in a chair prisoners with corruption charges. Bulog cases and cases of non bugeter DKP funds are so tangled just a few of the many cases of corruption in a country that seeks to realize good and clean Government Government as one of the goals of reform.

The resignation of President Suharto from power chairs for 32 years as a first step of reform in all fields be it economic, political, legal, social and cultural as well as the most important is democracy have opened the door wide open in the hope of this nation will have a better future. But unfortunately it is not completely fulfilled the dream, it slowly and even some of the depravity of a drastic increase in quality and quantity. Any part of the depravity that is the practice of corruption, collusion and nepotism (KKN). This corruption is one of the main acute illness that occurred in the new order which resulted in the economic system, politics, power and layers of bureaucracy berasaskan family is just spinning in circles of power that is only limited to family members and close friends.

Enthusiasm and efforts to eradicate corruption in the reform era marked by the release of a variety of products subject to legislation and the establishment of specialized institutions, namely the Corruption Eradication Commission. Expectations of the products above is the practice of law before the reforms can be brought Corruption green shirt and the money returned to the country, while in the post-reform can be a preventive effort. But what happens in the field is not as expected. Several cases of corruption are the days of the new order until there is a green shirt. Although there are up to the judge’s decision but more of a hushed up or even just to the investigator and his case shows News (BAP) may be stored in the private collections court cupboard. Then the question arises how the results after the post-reform? The answer is the same even though the days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono drums of war against corruption has shown some results, if you do not want to be called the way place.

Some of the cases it has come to the sentencing decision and legally binding. But this is not the monopoly of the corruption cases of the elite but also by the grassroots despite the losses a bit. The next question? What if one day they can occupy strategic positions and wet. So they stayed improve their creativity to corruption. The point is just a matter of chance, which means the act of the legislature and its application is not the prevention and eradication measures (preventive). Corruption is not only legal issues but also the culture, habits and opportunities, moral and religious. So it becomes a big mistake when we say that corruption can be eradicated until keakar-roots if done only limited legal needs. Because the reality is more and more regulations instead of corruption has increased. Indonesia is a country that excel in terms of corruption and other countries far behind in this regard.

Even more ridiculous again there is a sentence that has become such a common slogan that Indonesia most corrupt countries but koruptornya no. This seems a strange thing that could only happen in the middle of the country barantah. In addition to corruption, two words that are associated with collusion and nepotism is also a criminal offense. But whether there has been cases associated with it.

The question arises whether the inclusion of the two crimes was only as a product to satisfy the people alone? Or it aims to combat against collusion and nepotism that has been entered into the structure of society and the structure of our bureaucracy? Why Law No.28/1999 has not been effective in its application? Is there an error criminalitation? Though the process of making a law requiring a huge cost and would be useless if no result. Where the actual fault location that makes the purpose of the rule of law this would increase the legal disorder.

Dizaman where applicable positive law and has the principle of legality as opposed to the written rule of law is seen as the engine makes a major solution in addressing the many problems that arise in the community. But in reality the law was only a temporary sedative and is not a preventive and not also as something that can change negative habits and culture of the people that cause the initial problem.

Underlying problems that cause this disorder is due to the laws of social disorder. When talking legal issues should not be released from the social life of society because the law is the result of a reflection of patterns of behavior, regulations and customs in society. Unfortunately the law is often used as the only machine in the prevention of crime and forget the people who actually became the main base in law enforcement. So it is clear that the social aspect is an important role in crime prevention efforts that would result would be better because it allows cut matarantainya.

Corruption as a contagious disease that is feared as well as bird flu. Sometimes due fulfillment as that of a petty official, but some are due to the influence of a materialistic culture accumulated wealth such as corruption, the corruption of high officials whose lives have been more than a “luxury”. Because of the distribution of corruption is not wrong to say that corruption has become part of the culture of Indonesia. This means that the subject matter of corruption is how the mindset of the community in meeting the needs of the economy? Does cultural background of the material to accumulate wealth or to taste as needed and if the excess will be distributed to the needy as religious and moral ethics.

This means talking how patterns of behavior, impregnation religion, morality and other things that affect a person’s mental. Similarly, collusion and nepotism, the root of the problem lies in the defeat of the social idealism that contains values ​​that can create order in society. Collusion and nepotism have become a habit in our society is structural. This can be observed in everyday life. Work is currently an expensive item. But for some people who pass through the back roads is very easy. For example, simply by paying a sum of money in large amounts or with a powerful letter from the “strong man” or lobbying for an immediate family residing in the employment structure is desired. When this is balanced with a good quality does not matter, though a sense of justice still remains tarnished. But if the quality is bad, this is tantamount to putting people who are not experts who later will only add to the destruction. Sadly it seemed to have become not only procedural but also in private diinstitusi government.

The next question, what guarantee is snared by the legal actors? Or is it off and it will continue to develop this condition and will be continuously regenerated. And if people would oppose this rear lanes or omission attitudes were born because it also has a part in public life today. So it is clear that preventive measures of fighting corruption is to create a social order in terms of the order of the values ​​that should be applied in the structure of society. With the changing pattern of behavior that correspond to the values ​​of justice, religion and moral ethics would be more effective than just the application of the Act alone. So keep a balance between social order and the rule of law to be able to achieve a welfare reform community.

Pride against corruption, such as the pride of being a hero, if not corruption mean not a hero.

Some people hate corruption, but some have argued that corruption is a necessity in a rule.

A repulsive expression, emerged from the ruler of the thirst of wealth, they find it to be a hero, and capable of doing something immoral.

Stupid attitude born of the soul has become a culture, so the master of a position in the work only aims to corruption.

The effect of corruption is not a thought, and not a consideration. The perpetrators of corruption has gone bashfulness, has lost a sense of shame, and has lost a sense of humanity.

Perpetrators of corruption ignores the nature of God, even they are not subject to the law of God, let alone a human law, they do not care about the rules.

Reality rather than dream factory: An Indian woman interrupts her work in a coal camp.

The future is reportedly not only China but also India. Few economies create a comparable growth rate of the day, the world’s gross domestic product is in tenth place – and rising. In the foreseeable future, India will have after the U.S. and China’s third largest economy. The subcontinent overtook the People’s Republic soon as the most populous country and can boast of a demographic pounds: In contrast to China is growing and the Western industrialized states in India, the proportion of young, able-bodied population.

So all sunshine and roses? Not at all. Because India’s hour strikes in a few decades earlier. In order to overcome poverty and underdevelopment, before the country is still a long way. Worse, India, the route will travel much slower than previously hoped, for the economic growth necessary to reduce significantly. In addition, the growing financial difficulties of the chronically loss-making state.

Millions of Indians live in poverty.

Grinding poverty

As impressive economic growth of recent years was also a large proportion of Indians living in poverty. It should not obscure the many billionaires and millionaires. The gross domestic product per capita, India is ranked 127 of 181 countries – that after Iraq, and Mongolia, and just ahead of Uzbekistan. On social indicators like life expectancy, maternal mortality and immunization, India is holding back many poor African countries. More than 1.5 million children die every year from malnutrition.

Although more than 400 million people have left in the last 20 years poverty. But still a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line, which is recognized in India is very low. Officially, rich in the month the equivalent of just under 10 € to no longer be regarded as poor.

More than two-thirds of Indians live in rural areas. There are stagnating real incomes already low – inflation feeds on the rise. Only eight percent of all employees work in a regulated contract employment – 92 percent have neither health nor social security.

Growth weakens

To change this, India is dependent on growth. But the economy is losing momentum. You will probably rise this year by nearly seven percent, as little as no more since the outbreak of financial crisis. Growth at this level may sound high. Experts say that India could cope with growth rates at this level, the challenges only slowly.

The slow growth is not only because of the ailing world economy and the rising price of oil. Many reasons are homemade: corruption and arbitrariness of authorities hold back investment. Moreover, the government is not able to sectors such as retail to foreign investors to open.

Rag pickers on a garbage dump near the city of Amritsar.

Fed in a quandary

In addition, the RBI has given the high inflation, interest rates in recent months increased steadily to its current 8.5 percent. She wants to cut interest rates, therefore, to stimulate growth. But in February, inflation has risen for the first time in five months – just under 7 percent.

The inflation risks have increased to rising commodity prices and food prices. At the same time, the weak local currency provides for inflationary pressures. The rupee has fallen against the dollar in the last twelve months by nearly 13 percent. This increases the cost of imports and thus provides further price rises.

Exporting countries such as Germany are benefiting from consideration from a weak currency because it reduces the cost of exports on the world market. But India is not the case, because the economy is mainly driven by domestic demand. Exports make up only a small proportion of GDP.

Election campaign reform

But that’s not all. India is struggling with a debt problem, debt is currently at 69 percent of the gross domestic product. This is a little less than a year ago, but increases the budget deficit. Analysts expect, on average 5.8 percent from 4.8 percent a year ago.

To finance the enormous challenges, India needs to grow strongly – or spend money it does not. On credit growth for the country is getting more expensive: The yield on ten-year government bonds is more than eight percent.

That is why the country urgently needs economic reforms to attract foreign capital also. But then it does not currently. The main reason is that the government shy away from it. The parliamentary elections in 2014 cast a shadow before, the Congress Party of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh threatens to defeat it. It is not least due to hit a series of corruption scandals and has recently lost an important regional elections – recent defeats are only about three weeks ago.

Therefore, there is already campaigning. That is clearly the budget for the financial year beginning in April, presented by the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. It contains no significant growth impetus and savings, but sets in at higher costs. They are expected to rise by around 30 percent to 220 billion €. Only the military budget is expected to rise by 17 percent.

India wants to push the budget deficit to 5.1 percent yet. In the waning fiscal year is expected at 5.9 percent, the highest in the group of emerging markets. However, it is often questioned whether the government can achieve this – after all they had in the past year spent significantly more and taken a lot less than advertised.

And in the future it will be difficult for them to comply with the advertisements. The Treasury wants to cut subsidies on gasoline, food and fertilizers that cause currently costs in the amount of 2.7 percent of GDP. But rising prices in world markets, it is probably going to upset the bill.

Corruption as a brake on growth

 At the same time, many companies are in trouble. Concerned with retail, utilities, real estate and aviation industries in which the state plays a major role.

Is accumulating utility to billions in losses because the government-capped tariffs do not cover the costs. How difficult is to implement price increases, Dinesh Trivedi got Railway Minister felt. After a train accident, he announced the beginning of March to increase the safety of rail traffic. To finance this, the fares should rise for the first time since 2004. However, this proposal caused outrage, Trivedi lost his office.

This is precisely the infrastructure is a major obstacle to growth. Although billions of investments will be announced regularly, but most projects are not realized. Pervasive corruption leitetet much of the sums into the pockets of businessmen and politicians.

Before India’s economy is therefore still a long way. The difficulties grow, but the country has the potential to overcome them in the long term. Perhaps, as with the extra-long Bollywood movies: After much time has passed and many tragedies are overcome, there is eventually a happy ending. Let us hope that India as it is issued. But the more time is running out, the longer are millions of people live in abject poverty.

A journalistic scoop a few years ago led to serious legal difficulties for a top office-bearer of the party of former defence minister George Fernandes. Earlier this month, the defence ministry banned six foreign and two Indian companies for 10 years for allegedly being involved in the payment of hefty sums to the director-general of the ordnance board to secure the contract for setting up factories to produce specialised materials for artillery shells. The firms included the Israeli government company that manages much of that country’s defence exports to India, and Israel is now India’s second largest defence exporter.

Although we know a good deal about what goes on, it is still a shock to learn that a bribe-giver had the gumption to go right up to the Chief of the Indian Army and make an offer, and had the nerve to suggest to him not to be squeamish as others had happily accepted similarly sweetened deals. The CBI inquiry into the affair which was ordered by the defence ministry after a ruckus erupted in Parliament over this matter on Monday, will necessarily have to go into actions of some former Army Chiefs as well. But why didn’t the Chief, who enjoys a just reputation for integrity — exactly like defence minister A.K. Antony — not have his dubious interlocutor arrested on the spot? Asked about this in a television interview, Gen. Singh said he was too shocked as the vile suggestion was made by an officer just recently retired and was couched in indirect terms.

Gen. Singh said he went up to the defence minister right away and informed him of the episode. Questions do arise from this — such as what action did Mr Antony choose to take apart from “holding his head” and instructing the Chief not to let shady characters into our defence trade. Knowing our Parliament, it will probably get fixated on this issue (it must certainly investigate it though), and not pay attention to the wider (and pressing) question of corruption in defence purchases that could have the effect of selling our soldiers down the river in a military crisis. This is what happened when the Bofors revelations surfaced. The Opposition in India is obsessively preoccupied with narrow political advantage and looks askance at systems correction. India is now the world’s largest arms purchaser and must innovate tough norms on military purchases.

Corruption has happened for many years and today it becomes a bad culture in Indonesia for three reasons.

 
Most adult Indonesian or foreigners have known and admitted that corruptions happen in many places. The daily newspapers, news programs on TV and radio have reported corruptions are done everywhere, almost in all departments or public services of this country. Corruptions happen in health, education departments and banks. When we manage to get some documents in public service offices, we usually need much money to pay. Manipulations happen everywhere…

the actions to eliminate corruption are weak. The ever stronger culture seems not to come to an end when the responsible institutions who have to reinforce the justice today commit corruption. This is the worst. Corruptions happen in police department, courts where judges, public prosecutors, lawyers make deals to do corruption. All of us also heard in the end of 2004, Probosutejo reported that he had bribed the Supreme Court, or called Mahkamah Agung which becomes the highest level where the justice can be obtained. Perhaps you have to try to come to the local courts and see what happen there. You will see practices of bribery and other kinds of corruption. Therefore, we can say that corruptions become our culture. Do you like it?

The citizens have no goodwill to fight against the corruption. They create the situations in which people have opportunities to do corruptions. The citizens like to break the rules because they are not disciplined. For example, in the street when they drive a car or ride motorcycle, they do not have the driving license or necessary documents. Then, they are caught by the local policemen. To avoid more difficulties, they like to bribe the officer. The officer let them go then. In other words, the citizens and officers are the same, doing corruption together. If only the people were critical, disciplined, and obey the rules, and willing to report any wrong behaviors, this country will not be number one corrupting country in the world.

Conclusion Based on the reasons, we can conclude that corruption is becoming a bad culture in Indonesia if it is not ended soon by all of us. It seems that there must be more severe penalty for the Corruptors. Do we still care about the future of this country?

Well, looking for means of bridging this gap (valley) is not easy, because the high class society is not ready to take a challenge from any of the remaining two classes. To be domineers; they have built boundaries that are just too hard for a common citizen to crossover. Making sure that the middle class and low class people continue bowing and following blindly to their questionable leadership.

The high class level has defensive measures to keep aside any form of intrusion, these includes:

a)      a) Corruption:- By introducing this barrier to the country’s economy, they make sure the common citizen pays for a service which should be free in a booming economy. This barrier has contributed greatly in widening the gap between the three class levels, building a society of the wealthy and powerful against poor and dependant population. Very unfair because when it comes to sharing the economy, it becomes obvious that the rich takes it- in fact they take almost all, leaving the poor to be more dependent to the rich.

b)      b) Distribution of Resources:- If corruption has taken every corner of the economy, it needs more than a miracle to have fair distribution of public resources. Sometimes it happens that the poor are forced out of their owned property in every unrighteous mean possible, it can be through illegal acquisition of property or just buying the property at the lowest rate.  Lest we forget, the controlling power comes from the high class level, and no one can question about that.

c)       c) Employment Factor:- This can be seen as the determining factor when it comes to ratings of economic levels in a country, but if we look into factors determining the rate of employment in the country, we are taken back to the drawing boat.  We find a small percentage of people being employed- not basing of credibility but by economic status.

d)      d) Selfishness:- Having a few individuals to take the biggest share in the economic basket of a country has made this possible. Greedy politics has played a very big role to make sure the middle class and the low class levels remain the most exploited economies in the country, so that whenever they need something they can easily buy off members with peasants of their riches.

The most heartbreaking thing about people living in the last two classes is, majority are comfortable and satisfied with their demeaning treatment. Even though fear of what ifs can be the real reason behind this, but every citizen of any nation deserves better. There are cartels yes! If the middle class and low class citizens choose to entertain the high class for their unfair leadership, then the country’s economy will definitely crush, and the people who are likely to feel the harshness of a broken economy are the low and middle class members.