Activists lash out at vice-presidential candidate Mahfud for blaming women for corruption

JAKARTA: Activists have slammed vice presidential candidate Mahfud MD (pic), calling him sexist and misogynistic, after he suggested that the wives of graft convicts were to blame for their husbands’ offences.

Mahfud, who is running alongside presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo for the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), told a group of women in Padang, West Sumatra that wives put pressure on their husbands to live beyond their means, causing the men to resort to corrupt actions.