Singapore Ministers Pay, Legitimised Corruption

robertteh SG

posted at channelnewsasia under "Business" thread: babybang wrote:
If all those scholars claim they're so good....why can't we create Samsung, Hyundai, LG, KIA...even China brands such as Haier, TCL,,,and Lenovo....what we can only create is just OSiM, Breadtalk...etc, nothing spectacular to boost the economy.

If government does not give them jobs like CEOs or GMs in all the GLCs, our talents would just end up as unemployed, or security guards, taxi-drivers or consultants of some kinds not creaters of Samsung, Hyundai, LG etc.

Many of the talents are now retired into insignificance and many of them have tried and failed in their own businesses. That is the state of our presumptuous talents in Singapore promoted skyhigh by our self-serving meritocracy system.
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miong SG

I say, I say, did anyone forgot to mention this -

besides hyper inflated salaries, many MPs and ministers are also earning sideline incomes - as directors of GLC and private companies. Hundreds of thousands of dollarss in director fees and fat bonuses.

So actually they are all earning many times more than their already hyper-inflated salaries, really!

drawer SG

Originally posted by iveco:
[b]Indonesia may raise salary of civil servants to combat corruption

By Channel NewsAsia's Indonesia Bureau Chief Sujadi Siswo

JAKARTA : Indonesia plans to increase the salary of its six million civil servants in an effort to combat corruption and improve public service.

The pay increases are targetted at junior civil servants, whom observers say are prone to corruption because of their low wages.

After a request was made in June to double the take-home wages of 550 members of Parliament, authorities are now considering doing the same for their public officers in an effort to improve their working conditions, especially the lower-ranking ones.

Many are living on incomes below the minimum wage set out for the private sector, which is why observers believe they are more likely than others to be involved in corruption.

Junior officers earn about US$120 a month. The pay hike, scheduled for next year's budget, will see them getting up to a 30% increase.

The top civil servant -the Indonesian President - with his monthly basic salary of US$5,000, will get a 5% pay rise.

Indonesia's basic wage does not include benefits such as housing, personal and family allowances or a car, which will usually add up to another 30% or more.

Said Indria Samego, a military analyst at The Habibie Centre: "An Indonesian 4-star general, his income less than 5 million rupiah. Usually they get benefit and extra income because of their position. Their money come from everywhere, from somebody who needs political umbrella from him. So it's a lot of money."

So while critics support the government's motive to reduce corruption by increasing public officers remuneration, they say the fight against graft is just scratching the surface.

"The current effort in combating corruption focuses mainly on middle and small cases of corruption. They haven't touch the big fish - the big cases of corruption," said Luky Djani with the Indonesia Corruption Watch.

- CNA /ls

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Although u try to defend our ministers,but the title of ur post (Indonesia "may" raise the salary of civil servants to combat corruption) already making ur post less convincing."May" meaning Indonesia havent raise the salary of the civil servant,and becoz Indonesia political system is now more democratic than Singapore,they still have to go through their parliament n ppl consent before they can implement the idea.
So next time,before u wanted to defend our ministers "blindly",please post some articles that is more convincing,or wait until the Indonesia really raise the salary of their ministers then u come n post it here ok?

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