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Smugglers treat migrants as goods, while migrants are compelled to pay some money as they
are in a vulnerable situation that forcing them to do that. In the world of human smuggling,
bribery pays: OECD said in their last paper.

Widespread corruption hampers development, leads to poverty, and closes economic
opportunities as well as undermines the rule of law. These in the end stimulate people to move
abroad, generating influx of human migration.

GOPAC believes that by combating corruption, we can provide a more prosperous and wealthy
environment to our people, making them believe that their home provides all the best that they
have always wanted. Further, we believe that attacking political corruption is the best way to
diminish the drivers of forced migration.

This is because in most parts of the world, power tends to corrupt and by greed and corruption
they have become one of the driver of international conflict; political corruption breeds popular
resentment and inhibits action on international policy such as climate change.

As Mahatma Gandhi once has said: The world’s has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough
for everyone’s greed.

At this valuable conference, let me share you on what GOPAC has done and will do to combat
corruption, in particular corruption which may deprives the fundamental rights of our
people—including those of refugees. At our 6 (sixth) Global Conference in Indonesia, held two
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weeks prior to the 133 IPU Assembly we have committed to pursue the perpetrators of grand
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corruption—corruption that is so grave and whose effect on human life, human rights and
human welfare are so catastrophic—by seeking the possibility to establish of such international
measures such as: an optional protocol to the UNCAC on international court on corruption and
UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of corruption on human rights.

GOPAC also takes into account the particular Goal No 16 of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) where it pursue the dream of good governance and advocate for peace for
the betterment of human life. In the future we will work towards these directions, guided
by Yogyakarta Declaration adopted in Indonesia, a country with a strong and robust anti-
corruption commitments.

As Indonesia has set the pathway for a corrupt-free nation through the development of an
independent anti-corruption commission and court, robust criminalization of corruption and
anti-money laundering laws, as well as other anti-corruption prevention legislative instruments,
we wish that the same spirit also be embedded to all members of IPU.

66 I Selected Speeches of the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia