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Analysis: Indonesia today more corrupt than when Jokowi took charge

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Analysis: Indonesia today more corrupt than when Jokowi took charge President Joko Widodo and Vice President Ma'aruf Amin introduced their deputy ministers before the inauguration at the Merdeka Palace, Jakarta on October 25, 2019. (JP/Seto Wardhana/Adi/19)

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hen President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo exits the political stage in October 2024, Indonesia will likely be a more corrupt nation than when he moved into the presidential palace a decade earlier, unless he can turn things around. This is hardly a legacy that Jokowi wants to be remembered by.

In the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) published this month, Indonesia saw not only the biggest drop in its score to 38 in 2022 from 34 a year earlier, but also in the global ranking from 96th to 110th of 180 countries surveyed. In 2014, the year Jokowi took the helm, Indonesia scored 34 and ranked 107 out of 175 countries surveyed.

The index, published annually by Transparency International, gathers the perception from a sample of the public in each country. It assigns countries scores from 0 for very corrupt, to 100 for very clean.

Indonesia’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI)

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