Fajarasia.id – Semarang Pujiyono, a criminal law expert at Diponegoro University (Undip), estimates that too long a term leads to a leader becoming a dictator and corrupt.
“People who have been in office too long tend to become corrupt,” Puziyono said in Semarang on Thursday.
This was sent to his Undip by a criminal law expert in response to a proposal to extend the mayor’s term of office to a maximum of nine years.
Puziyono cites the following formula of Lord Acton, a professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge, England:
Privately, Puziyono agreed that the mayor’s tenure would be limited to, for example, his five years in the same presidential term. “The cost of walking the village chief is also very high, so it takes some time to act properly,” he said.
Therefore, the current term under his Law No. 6 of 2014 on villages is considered realistic enough to renew the program, he continued.
“If they were corrupt then and there, the law would tell,” he said.
Previously, village leaders in various parts of Indonesia had asked him to extend his term from six to nine years.
The village chief called for amendments to his Law No. 6 of 2014 on Villages, which stipulates property rights. A nine-year term is considered sufficient time to work with stakeholders on the development of the village. ***
