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News Analysis

Yudhoyono leaves anti-graft battle legacy

AFP, Jakarta
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is running for reelection on July 8. leaves a first term legacy of greater stability and gains in tackling entrenched corruption, analysts say.
Elected in Indonesia’s first direct presidential poll in 2004, Yudhoyono was handed a country crippled by widespread graft, an insurgency in Aceh province and bombings by the Jihadi Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network.
Yudhoyono, known here as SBY, finishes his first five year term with significant gains on all these issues, but analysts warn these successes may have more to do with benign neglect than any reforming zeal.
"By not committing any crimes of his own, or mistakes of his own, we have arrived," political analyst Wimar
Witoelar told AFP
"It’s like winning a game without making any double faults or any diffi-cultshots," he said.
He oversaw a 2005 foreign-brokered peace deal with separatist rebels that ended a nearly three decade civil war in Aceh -- although Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who is challenging Yudhoyono in the election, claims most of the credit.
Yudhoyono also cracked down on JI, the Islamist outfit behind bombings on Bali island in 2002 and 2005 that killed more than 200 people.
Hundreds of militants have been arrested and there has not been a significant attack in Indonesia for more than three years.
But it is progress against corruption that is generally seen as Yudhoyono’s top achievement.
The independent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has
claimed a series of high-profile scalps, including senior government officials, lawmakers, diplomats and the father-in-lawof the president’s son.
This is a major change from the centralised cronyism of the Suharto dictatorship, but analysts say there are worrying signs the campaign is losing momentum.
Lawmakers arc dithering over a vote to renew the mandate of the independ ent corruption court by a December deadline, raising suspicions that one of the most vital organs in the anti corruption effort is being sabotaged.
Yudhoyono was recently quoted as saying the KPK's power "must not go unchecked and that the organisation was "only responsible to God", com ments that some saw as a threat to the independence of the commission
The president was also embarrassed last mpnth when state auditors
claimed he ordered them to investigate the KPK's use of wiretaps, its most effective weapon and one it has used with devastating effect.
The recent arrest of the KPK's chief. Antasari Azhar, for allegedly hiring hitmen to murder a rival in a love trian -gle, has only fuelled speculation that Yudhoyono's much-vaunted anti-graft campaign is in trouble.
"He didn’t monitor its implementa tion and he didn't keep pushing, Gadjah Madha University academic ZainfilArifinMochtarsaid.
"If we look at the trend of SBY s declining efforts on corruption, I'm scared it will continue dropping.”
Yudhoyono’s graft fight also has not been entirely impartial, watchdog Transparency International’s Indonesia head, Todung Mulya Lubis, said.