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The average score gained by government offices and state companies in the KPK
survey was only 5.33, which KPK said was worse than the integrity levels of public
sectors in most other countries.
The survey ranked the civil service administration board with the highest
integrity but it scored only 6.51 on a scale of zero to ten, while the worst
institution was the justice and human rights ministry (immigration and the
administration of notaries public) with 4.15 and the state land agency and land
transportation administration (road worthiness certification) with 4.09 and 3.45
respectively.
The KPK integrity index further confirmed the findings of similar surveys
conducted by other national institutions such as the Economic and Social Research
Institute of the University of Indonesia which ranked the National Police, Custom
Service, Tax Office, Justice sector (court)
as the most corrupt public institutions.
The KPK integrity survey, similar to the TI annual corruption perception index,
could serve as a good tool for building up public opinion pressures against all
kinds of corruption.
It is nice to know the KPK will conduct the integrity survey annually, covering
100 government institutions and state companies.
The KPK integrity survey could also become an effective tool for policy makers if
the commission continues to improve the methodology of its studies with a wide
variety of innovative approaches to gather a wide variety of different indicators
of corrupt practices both subjective and objective. The survey is important to
monitor results on the ground, assess the concrete reality of corruption and
develop anticorruption programs.
These are unhappy facts. Most within the community, the government and business
community remain entrenched in a way of life that accepts corruption as a cost of
doing business.
Similarly, firms will pay less taxes if they believe that they will be wasted by
corruption and they will invest less in their country. Further, while social norms
might affect what people view as corruption, in practice such cultural bias in
perceptions does not appear to be substantial.
Corruption has been cited by almost all international and domestic surveys as a
significant impediment to economic growth and political stability. Hence the
government and the general public should turn more attention to fighting this
disease.