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Indonesia drops in graft index for first time in Jokowi presidency
Corruption Perceptions Index shows setbacks in economic and investment sectors as well as politics and democracy.
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Rest in peace: Employees at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) lay flowers and wreaths on top of a casket in front of the KPK headquarters in Kuningan, Central Jakarta, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, after the House of Representative elected then Insp. Gen. Firli Bahuri from the National Police as KPK commissioner. (JP/Seto Wardhana)
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fter years of sluggish progress, experts and businesspeople believe Indonesia’s anticorruption campaign went backward in 2020 as the nation scored lower in a global graft assessment.
Berlin-based Transparency International announced on Thursday that Indonesia had regressed in terms of corruption eradication, as it awarded the country a score of 37 in the 2020 update of its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).
The score was three points below the previous year’s CPI score of 40 and marks the first decline since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo assumed office in 2014.
The latest score places Indonesia above its neighbors of Vietnam and Thailand (36) as well as the Philippines (34) but lower than Timor-Leste (40), Malaysia (51), Brunei Darussalam (60) and Singapore (85).
According to the index, a score of zero indicates that a country is “highly corrupt”, while 100 indicates that a country is “very clean”.
Introduced in 1995, the CPI aggregates data from various sources that provide perceptions among businesspeople and country experts of the level of corruption in the public sector. For the 2020 index, Transparency International assessed 180 countries and territories.
