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INDONESIA, Jan 30 (Jakarta Post/ANN): After years of sluggish progress, experts and businesspeople believe Indonesia’s anticorruption campaign went backward in 2020 as the nation scored lower in a global graft assessment.
Berlin-based Transparency International had announced that Indonesia had regressed in terms of corruption eradication, as it awarded the country a score of 37 in the 2020 update of its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).
The score was three points below the previous year’s CPI score of 40 and marks the first decline since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo assumed office in 2014.
The latest score places Indonesia above its neighbors of Vietnam and Thailand (36) as well as the Philippines (34) but lower than Timor-Leste (40), Malaysia (51), Brunei Darussalam (60) and Singapore (85).
Indonesia s CPI score dropped three points in 2020 28th January 2021
A member of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) supervisory council Syamsuddin Haris at the launch of Indonesia s Corruption Index (CPI) 2020 in Jakarta on Thursday (Jan 23, 2021). ANTARA/Desca Lidya Natalia
Indonesia s CPI score in 2020 stood at 37 and ranked 102nd of the 180 countries. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) score in 2020 decreased by three points to reach 37, from 40 in 2019, and it was ranked 102nd out of the 180 nations. Indonesia s CPI score in 2020 stood at 37 and ranked 102nd of the 180 countries. The score has declined by three points, from 40 in 2019, Transparency International Indonesia (TII) researcher Wawan Suyatmiko stated during a virtual launch of Indonesia s CPI here on Thursday.