Corruption pervaded all aspects of Indonesian life. For instance, while I was working in Indonesia for the international environmental organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF), an Indonesian friend also working for WWF pointed out to me an Indonesian WWF office director and whispered that his nickname was “Mr. Corruption”—because he was not just normally corrupt, but exceptionally corrupt; a boat that overseas WWF donors had bought for that particular WWF office had ended up as a private boat of Mr. Corruption. As another example of non-governmental corruption, my work in Indonesia routinely
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