(June 10, 2006) Abstract: Odious debts are debts incurred by the government of a nation without either popular consent or a legitimate public purpose. While there is some debate within academic circles as to whether the successor government to a regime which incurred odious debts has the right to repudiate repayment, in the real world this is currently not an option granted legitimacy either by global capital markets or the legal systems of creditor states.

(June 6, 2006) Three private groups of lawyers and activists have filed a suit against the Indonesian attorney general’s office for dropping a long-running corruption case against ailing former dictator Suharto.

(June 5, 2006) Governmental organizations never get the ax for operating losses. They don’t even die in their sleep. They claim new purposes for themselves and flourish. Just look at the IMF.

(June 1, 2006) And follow the positive example of Norway: any comprehensive approach to corruption must examine the World Bank’s lending practices of yesterday and cancel debts found to be corrupt and fraudulent.

(May 26, 2006) “You can’t clean a dirty floor with a dirty broom,” says Jarkarta Post columnist T. Sima Gunawan, quoting an activist, in response to the problem of graft in Indonesia, ranked by Berlin-based NGO Transparency International as the sixth most corrupt nation in the world.

(May 19, 2006) Ronnie Velasco, in his newly published memoirs, Trailblazing, the Quest for Energy Self-Reliance, opens by ad-homineming "the anti-Marcos opposition" for "the tragedy of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant."

(May 16, 2006) Companies seeking export guarantees from rich country governments must in future declare whether any of their staff have been charged with or convicted of bribing foreign officials, reports the Financial Times.