Public thinks police cleaner than KPK: Survey

JPA recent survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) showed that the number of respondents believing the police were clean was higher than those saying the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) was clean.

According to the survey, which was conducted in December, 2011, 39.3 percent of the survey’s 1,220 respondents nationwide said the National Police were clean. The number of respondents saying the KPK was clean was “only” 38.5 percent.

At 57.2 percent, more than half of the respondents considered the Indonesian Military to be the cleanest, followed by the Presidency at 51 percent. The police ranked third.

“Public opinion might have been driven by recent media exposure of the KPK’s high-profile corruption investigations, such as the investigation into the corruption surrounding the SEA Games athlete village construction, which has implicated numerous high-profile figures and the alleged corruption surrounding the Bank Century bailout,” LSI executive director Kuskhrido “Dodi” Ambardi said on Sunday.

Media coverage of the police was also intense but only a few [cases] were directly linked to corruption, Dodi said.

“This could also be understood that the level of public expectations of the KPK is truly high,” he added. (nvn)