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 first volume in the four part series underlines the fact that corruption is widespread and deeply rooted, and that governments have never seriously tried to counter it.