Indonesia's Corruption Perceptions Index Drops in 2020: TII

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Transparency International Indonesia (TII) on Thursday released its corruption perceptions index (CPI) of 2020 and scored Indonesia an IPK 37, which is a drop from IPK 40 in 2019. 

TII research department manager Wawan Suyatmiko on January 28, said that the 2020 report took the theme of ‘Covid-19 pandemic with corruption’ and saw Indonesia score lower than Timor Leste (40 IPK points), Malaysia (51), Brunei Darussalam (60), and Singapore (85). 

The IPK drop, Wawan said, was caused by a number of indicators, one of which is the PRS International Country Risk Guide that dropped 8 points from 58 to 50; IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook dropped 5 points; Global Insight Country Risk Ratings went down 12 points; PERC Asia Risk Guide dropped 3 points; and Varieties of Democracy Project dropped 2 points.

There were also 3 indicators that caused Indonesia to stagnate such as the World Economic Forum EOS, Bertelsmann Foundation Transform, and Economist Intelligence Unit Country Ratings. There was only one indicator that improved in 2020 which was the World Justice Project or Rule of Law Index that went up two points. 

Three main aspects that surrounded the corruption perceptions index that year was stagnating economy-investment, improving law enforcement but stagnating bureaucracy and services quality. Lastly, political and democracy indicators dropped. 

M ROSSENO AJI