Govt gaining more trust than KPK: Survey

JPA survey released by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Monday suggested the government was doing a better job than the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK).

“Some 55.3 percent of respondents think that the government has shown good performance, while 50.7 percent of respondents think that the KPK has shown good performance,” Sunny Tanuwidjaja, a political and international relations researcher at CSIS, told a press conference in Jakarta.

The survey asked whether or not the performance of various institutions was satisfactory.

Just 22.9 percent of respondents said the House of Representatives performed satisfactorily and 22.4 percent thought the same about political parties.

A fraction of respondents were pleased with the justice system. For attorneys, judges and the police, satisfactory performance votes were only cast by 20.3 percent, 20.6 percent and 28.4 percent of respondents respectively.

A total of 56.5 percent of respondents believed that the government’s performance in eradicating corruption had shown progress, while 25.4 percent respondents said otherwise.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s leadership was deemed to be progressing by 75.5 percent of respondents, but 14.8 percent said his leadership had shown a slow down.

Around 43.4 percent of respondents also said that law enforcement has improved, while 32.6 percent believed it has worsened. The remaining did not offer an opinion.

The study collected completed surveys from 2,117 respondents between Jan. 16 and 24.