Death Penalty for Corrupt Officials

           Nowadays, Indonesia is not free from corruption. Some of government officials are involved in cases of corruption, for example, ex-Governor of Banten, Ratu Atut Chosiyah or ex-Mayor of Bandung, Dada Rosada. The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission conducts anti-corruption activities in all parts of the government. The commission investigates those who are involved in corruption cases. The purpose is to make the government officials free from cases of corruption. Almost all the officials who are evidently guilty are given jail punishment for a couple of years only. On the other hand, the government of China has applied death penalty for serious cases of corruption to make the government minus corruption. Death penalty still becomes a controversy among people in Indonesia. Nonetheless, those who corrupt in Indonesia should be penalized death.

Death penalty is an equal punishment for those who corrupt. They deserve to get death penalty because of their big mistakes. Corrupt actions will cause bad effects for the government and the citizens. Here, the citizens will be poorer and the country will not develop. People who corrupt steal citizens’ money. As a result, the economic prosperity will be chaos because the money is stolen by such people. The citizens will lack help from the government. For instance, the government cannot build public facilities and give subsidy for deprived people. Besides, people who corrupt also crush the government’s money calculation. It happens because the government already plans many programs. The corrupt activities certainly bring many disadvantages. Therefore, people who corrupt must pay for their mistakes and death penalty is the solution. 

 Death penalty is a lesson for all members of a country. It will be a good example for other government officials and citizens to learn from mistakes. It is also important that people know the effects of corruption. Once they know the effects of corruption, they will surely avoid other kinds of corrupt activities such as cheating, lying, and be disloyal to the residents. People will realize that corruption is a big fault. Therefore, people will not do the same thing. It makes the government officials have good and honest attitudes.      

Some people may say that death penalty is an antiquated punishment. This statement may be true but the purpose of the punishment is still useful until now. There are 13 countries that still apply death penalty, including Indonesia, America, Uni Emirate Arab, Bangladesh, Iran, and Japan. As the people who corrupt, they will be perilous for many people and give more disadvantages to the surrounding people. It will be very unsafe for other people in the country. Their actions are prejudicial for the citizens. It is because they take the citizens’ money and use it for personal purposes. 

People may believe that death penalty is not the right sentence. The statement is truly false. The officials or representatives should actually serve citizens. They are elected by the people, but they betray the people. They make the people’s lives suffer more because they lie and do what they want. Most of the corruptors actually are rich because of their greediness they still steal people’s money. It is equal that people who suffer many people must punish by death.

In brief, people who commit corruption should be sentenced demise. The reasons are they are reasonable to punish death because they do bad activities, they make our economic prosperity worse, and make the people suffer. Besides, death penalty is an appropriate sentence for them. It is also recommended that the Indonesian government should apply death penalty for those who commit corruption since they will make our country much worse. 

Raadhiyah Mardiyyah

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