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 second volume underlines the fact that corruption has increasingly been seen as an opportunity for gluttony and greed to flourish, in which everyone wants a place at the trough, and in which those who stood aloof from the corruption opportunities were considered stupid.