{"id":1073,"date":"2013-09-03T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:00:48","slug":"fighting-corruption-by-preventing-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/fighting-corruption-by-preventing-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Corruption By Preventing Money Laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"

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IL News 013\/2013\n\n<\/pre>\n
Jakarta, August 28, 2013<\/strong><\/h6>\n
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Money laundering is a way to disguise the proceeds of criminal conduct such as corruption. Therefore, preventing money laundering requires participation of all parties.<\/p>\n
Institut Leimena held a discussion on \u201cFighting Corruption By Preventing Money Laundering\u201d at PGI Teuku Umar Guest House on August 28, 2013, with Rev. A.A. Yewangoe (Chairman, Fellowship of Churches in Indonesia) and Febri Diansyah (Researcher, Indonesia Corruption Watch) as speakers. Leaders of national churches fellowships, \u00a0church synods representatives, legal practitioners, and Institut Leimena board members participated in the discussion.<\/p>\n
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In his remarks, Rev. Yewangoe emphasized that it\u2019s important for churches to be vigilant against all forms of corruption, including money laundering, and to maintain integrity in carrying out their mission. Theologically, \u201cmoney laundering\u201d in the disguise of \u201cwashing of sins\u201d practice is wrong. The Fellowship of Churches in Indonesia\u2019s 2012 General Assembly in Melonguane, North Sulawesi, even released a joint decree on the Churches\u2019s Resolution Against Corruption.<\/p>\n
Febri Diansyah gave a special attention on Chapter 5 of the \u201cPrevention and Combating of Money Laundering Act\u201d (Law No. 8\/2010) which confirms that passive recipients of grant or donation proceeds of crime (corruption, etc.) can also be charged under the criminal sanctions of the Act. Therefore, religious organizations or churches need to apply the principle of “know your custumer”, or identify the contributors and not to accept all donations arbitrarily.<\/p>\n
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In his concluding note, Maruarar Siahaan (Constitutional Court Judge, 2003-2009) who chaired the discussion reaffirmed the importance of churches to be actively involved continuously in combating corruption by preventing money laundering.<\/p>\n
There was a high expectation among the participants that this discussion in August could become the beginning of a more in-depth and comprehensive discussion on preventing money laundering practices which could potentially undermine the integrity of the Church in carrying out her mission.<\/p>\n
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IL News 013\/2013 Jakarta, August 28, 2013   Money laundering is a way to disguise the proceeds of criminal conduct such as corruption. Therefore, preventing money laundering requires participation of all parties. Institut Leimena held a discussion on \u201cFighting Corruption By Preventing Money Laundering\u201d at PGI Teuku Umar Guest House on August 28, 2013, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
IL News 013\/2013<\/span><\/div>
by Institut Leimena<\/span><\/div>
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Jakarta, August 28, 2013<\/strong><\/p>
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Money laundering is a way to disguise the proceeds of criminal conduct such as corruption. Therefore, preventing money laundering requires participation of all parties.<\/p>
\u00a0<\/p>
Institut Leimena held a discussion on \u201cFighting Corruption By Preventing Money Laundering\u201d at PGI Teuku Umar Guest House on August 28, 2013, with Rev. A.A. Yewangoe (Chairman, Fellowship of Churches in Indonesia) and Febri Diansyah (Researcher, Indonesia Corruption Watch) as speakers. Leaders of national churches fellowships, \u00a0church synods representatives, legal practitioners, and Institut Leimena board members participated in the discussion.<\/p>
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In his remarks, Rev. Yewangoe emphasized that it\u2019s important for churches to be vigilant against all forms of corruption, including money laundering, and to maintain integrity in carrying out their mission. Theologically, \u201cmoney laundering\u201d in the disguise of \u201cwashing of sins\u201d practice is wrong. The Fellowship of Churches in Indonesia\u2019s 2012 General Assembly in Melonguane, North Sulawesi, even released a joint decree on the Churches\u2019s Resolution Against Corruption.<\/p>
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Febri Diansyah gave a special attention on Chapter 5 of the \u201cPrevention and Combating of Money Laundering Act\u201d (Law No. 8\/2010) which confirms that passive recipients of grant or donation proceeds of crime (corruption, etc.) can also be charged under the criminal sanctions of the Act. Therefore, religious organizations or churches need to apply the principle of \"know your custumer\", or identify the contributors and not to accept all donations arbitrarily.<\/p>
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In his concluding note, Maruarar Siahaan (Constitutional Court Judge, 2003-2009) who chaired the discussion reaffirmed the importance of churches to be actively involved continuously in combating corruption by preventing money laundering.<\/p>
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There was a high expectation among the participants that this discussion in August could become the beginning of a more in-depth and comprehensive discussion on preventing money laundering practices which could potentially undermine the integrity of the Church in carrying out her mission.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fgd","category-il-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leimena.org\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}