RI ranks 100th in 2011 Corruption Perception Index

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta, Thu, 12/01/2011

Indonesia received another low score in this year’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), carried out by Transparency International.

Indonesia scored 3.0 in this year’s CPI, which was announced on Thursday by the Indonesian chapter of Transparency International. The result places Indonesia in 100th position out of 183 countries measured.

It is a slight increase on last year’s score of 2.8, where a score of 10 indicates a highly “clean” country and zero indicates a high level of corruption. Indonesia ranked 110 out of 178 countries in 2010, and 111th out of 180 countries in 2009.

“This shows no significant change in Indonesia’s corruption eradication efforts,” secretary general of Transparency International Indonesia Teten Masduki said in a press release made available to The Jakarta Post by e-mail.

The release added that, witnessing the sluggish progress of Indonesia’s corruption eradication efforts, the government’s target of a 5.0 score in the 2014 CPI was too ambitious.

Transparency International suggested the government undertake thorough and comprehensive bureaucracy reforms as well as reforming law enforcement institutions such as the police, the Attorney General’s Office and the courts.

Corruption Perceptions index 2011