ICW Values Prabowo-Gibran Government Contributes to Reducing Indonesia's Corruption Perception Index

JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) assesses that the government of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka contributed to the decline in Indonesia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) in 2025.

IPK Indonesia is known to have dropped three points from 37 to 34. Transparency International Indonesia (TII) also noted that Indonesia's position had dropped to 109 out of a total of 182 countries surveyed.

"For the past year, it is clear how the Prabowo-Gibran government uses its power to build an ecosystem that normalizes conflicts of interest, nepotism, and patronage," said ICW Advocacy Division Staff, Yassar Aulia in a written statement quoted Thursday, February 12.

ICW assessed that President Prabowo's determination in eradicating corruption also stopped at the podium of the speech. This can be seen from the indicators in the IMD Business School World Competitiveness Yearbook which is one of the references in measuring the GPA.

"It is recorded that Indonesia's score related to the prevalence of bribery and corruption has dropped drastically by 19 points, from 45 to 26. This indicates that in terms of enforcement, the eradication of corruption over the past year has not shown effectiveness in providing a deterrent effect," said Yassar.

In terms of legislation, ICW assessed that the government and the DPR had not prioritized the anti-corruption agenda. One of them is the lack of steps to return the KPK Law to the version before the 2019 revision.

In addition, the discussion of the Asset Confiscation Bill and the revision of the Anti-Corruption Criminal Act has not shown significant progress, including adjustments to the mandate of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC), such as the criminalization of trading influence and bribery in the private sector.

ICW also highlighted the decline in the quality of corruption prevention based on the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation index. According to them, conflicts of interest actually seem to be maintained through the division of strategic positions to parties with political closeness.

Yassar gave an example of the phenomenon of double vice minister positions as commissioners in SOEs and the private sector, to the management of the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) program which is considered to have political affiliations. "Later, important positions such as deputy governor of Bank Indonesia were actually given to direct nephews of the president," said Yassar.

"A vulgar form of nepotism that has the potential to kill the independence of the central bank from executive influence," he continued.

Furthermore, ICW assessed that the aspects of law enforcement and access to justice also influenced the decline in Indonesia's CPI in 2025. The increase in the salaries of the judiciary was considered insufficient to address corruption in the judicial sector.

"It is important to dismantle the judicial mafia network and stop intervening in the independence of the judicial power, for example through the excessive use of amnesty, abolition, and rehabilitation powers," concluded Yassar.