不知何种原因,人们形成了这样的认识:“民主”可以治疗腐败。但在印度尼西亚调研时,一位来自一家重要智库的专家说道:“过去(指苏哈托统治时期)的贪污是在桌子底下,而现在(即实现民主化的时期)的贪污是把桌子一起‘吃’掉了。” For some reason, people have come to understand that “democracy” can cure corruption. However, in an Indonesian survey, one expert from an important think tank said: “In the past (during the reign of Suharto) corruption was under the table, and corruption now (and in the time of democratization) consisted of putting the table together ’eaten.”