TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) issued a D score for efforts to eradicate corruption carried out by all legal enforcers in Indonesia throughout 2021. In the assessment, D is a poor score.

“ICW conducted this research as a form of public supervision,” said ICW researcher Kurnia Ramadhana in a written statement, Monday, April 18.

The antigraft watchdog monitored three law enforcement agencies, viz. the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Attorney General's Office (AGO), and the National Police.

In 2021, they investigated 533 graft cases and named 1,173 people suspects. The target in handling corruption cases in 2021 based on the enactment of the budget execution document (DIPA) was 2,217 cases.

“When comparing the target to the number of cases being handled, the performance of the three law enforcement agencies was below 40 percent,” said Kurnia.

He added that budget abuse was the most dominant scheme of corruption, followed by fictitious projects, embezzlements, and markup budgets.

Kurnia added that the number of corruption case handling tended to fluctuate between 2017 and 2021. The highest number was recorded in 2017 with 576 cases. Then the figure declined to 454 cases in 2018 and continued to drop to 271 in 2019. But it increased to 444 in 2019 and 533 cases in 2021.

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