This book is about what people have always suspected, but didn't know precisely.

The purpose of publishing Steling from the people is to present the Indonesian public with a collection of research reports about how corruption has come out, spread, and held hostage the entire social fabric of the Indonesian nation. The book also aims at convincing the deeply concerned community of reform minded citizens in the country that somewhere, behind a mountain of hard and smart work, there is hope for salvaging the nation.



The third volume deals with the way in which corruption sucks people into its grasp. When corruption is pervasive and expected, and corruptors seem immune to prosecution, then more and more people join those already practicing corrupt behaviour.