TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A number of artists from various art background commemorated the World Anti Corruption Day by participating in the Anti Corruption Festival held by Corruption Eradication Commission in Yogyakarta.
“Permissive, paternalistic, feodal and indifferent attitudes have now become part of culture that turns corruptions from small disease into deadly cancer,” Agung ‘Leak’ Kurniawan, an artists from Yogyakarta during a discussion on Monday, December 8.
In light of the situation, Agung and his friends decided to hold three big event on the opening of the festival on Tuesday, December 9. The events inlcude Gropyokan Parade, Anti Corruption People Proclamation, and Gropyokan Music Concert.
“Corruptions are Us” became a major theme in Yogya. Artists made masks of rats that were worn by residents who participate in the Anti Corruption festival.
“We promote the act to fight corruption from our selves first, before looking out [to other people],” Agung added.
The artists also support KPK’s pilot project program of family-based corruption prevention.
“Family should be the first fort to prevent the corrupt behavior. But the fact is now the contrary, family often become the ones who support the corruption,” Agung said.
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