“Indonesia’s greatest living advocate.”
PROFESSOR SIMON BUTT, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

★The work by Todung Mulya Lubi, one of Indonesia's leading human rights lawyers and most influential legal thinkers, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) and Emeritus Professor of Melbourne Law School!
★With foreword by Tim Lindsey, Australia's leading expert on Indonesian law and Professor of Asian Law at Melbourne Law School, and recommended by SIMON BUTT, Professor at the University of Sydney Law School!
★This poignant and brilliant account by a courageous, knowledgeable, and calm insider of the enormous challenges to democracy and the rule of law facing the world's fourth most populous country and his beloved homeland shows the painstaking efforts and successive setbacks of unwavering anti-corruption fighters, and the importance of legal independence and popular will. In the context of the unstable development of modern society sounded the alarm of The Times.

What stands between Indonesia taking its rightful place in the world?
War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience is a courageous, informed, and sober insider's account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within the fourth most populous nation. Corruption is a huge problem in Indonesia. Some reasons are easy to identify and flow on from the authoritarianism of the Soeharto New Order. Other factors are less apparent. As Todung Mulya Lubis, one of Indonesia's leading human rights lawyers and most influential legal thinkers, explains, 'Now corruptors come from the legislature, government, judiciary, and business communities, and they are not simply thieves but rent-seekers, benefiting from rapid economic development and weak law enforcement'. In his telling, the best efforts of the most unswerving and talented corruption fighters in Indonesia have been frustrated since the Soeharto regime was overthrown a generation ago. But as Todung also shows, there have recently been many successful prosecutions of corrupt officials, from the lowest levels to the very upper echelons of government and society. The creation of the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission, the KPK, in 2003, was an inspired move. For all its problems, arising from both internal dynamics and the often hostile social and institutional environments in which it has operated, the legal independence and dogged idealism of the KPK have made it a genuine force for renewal.

Todung Mulya Lubis is known as a seasoned social activist, academic, practicing lawyer and novelist. He has over 40 years of engagement as a student activist, legal aid lawyer, anti-corruption preacher, poet, novelist, university lecturer and diplomat. Todung has established many NGOs like Legal Aid Institute, Transparency International-Indonesia, Amnesty International-Indonesia, International Crisis Group, Indonesian Legal Roundtable, University Network for Free and Fair Election and many others. Todung is also known as a prolific writer.