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Indonesia’s graft fight stalls as CPI shows no improvement
Indonesia scored 34 in the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI), putting it lower than its regional neighbors, with surveyors arguing that efforts to weaken justice systems were the main cause behind the stagnant fight against the extraordinary crime.
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Motorists are reflected in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) building’s name plate in Jakarta on June 27, 2023.
(AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
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ndonesia’s efforts to eradicate corruption seem to have been hampered by various causes, from attacks against law enforcers to vote-buying, as suggested by the country’s unimproved score in the global graft index.
The 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), published by Berlin-based Transparency International on Tuesday, showed that Indonesia scored 34, putting it in 115th position out of 180 countries surveyed in the study.
The latest score is below the global average, which is stuck at 43, with the global graft watchdog arguing that most countries “have made no progress or declined in the last decade,” on its website.
In Southeast Asia, Indonesia scored lower than regional neighbors Singapore, with a score of 83, Malaysia (50), Vietnam (41) and Thailand (35), while having the same score and rank as the Philippines.
The CPI was first introduced in 1995 as a composite index aggregating data from various sources to offer a measure of corruption levels by country. An index score of 0 indicates that a country is extremely corrupt, while 100 means it is free of corruption.
In its report, Transparency averaged CPI scores of different countries based on types of government, following a classification made by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2022. It found that countries with a strong democracy scored 73 on average, followed by 48 for flawed democracies and 32 for non-democratic regimes.
