I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office," said the seventh US president Andrew Jackson.
The statement was made by a president of a country that had been dubbed the "champion of democracy" nearly two centuries ago, but its substance still rings true today, even here in Indonesia, a country some 14,000 kilometres away.
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