Survey Shows 41.5 Percent Of Citizens Think The Current Corruption Eradication Is Bad

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JAKARTA - The Saiful Mujani Research and Consulting Institute (SMRC) released the results of a survey related to eradicating corruption. As a result, more residents perceive the current state of corruption eradication as bad than those who think it is good. SMRC Research Director, Deni Irvani, explained that as many as 41.5 percent of citizens stated that eradicating corruption was bad or very bad.

Only about 28.8 percent of the population considered the current condition of eradicating corruption to be good or very good. There were 25.1 percent rated it moderate, and 4.5 percent answered they didn't know. "Citizens who rate the corruption eradication condition as good or very good are lower than those who rate it as bad or very bad," said Deni in a survey entitled "Economic-Political 2021 and 2022 Expectations: National Public Opinion" online, Sunday, December 26. Last year, there were 41.1 percent who thought that corruption in Indonesia was increasing, 22.1 percent thought it was getting less and 31.1 percent thought it was the same and 5.7 percent did not know.

Even so, around 54.8 percent of residents are optimistic that the eradication of corruption will improve in the next year. Higher than those who judged it would be bad, namely 18.5 percent. Meanwhile, 18.5 percent considered it moderate and 8.3 percent did not know. "Meanwhile, 43.8 percent of residents think that corruption will be less next year, only 19.3 percent think it will be more. Meanwhile, 26.8 percent think it's the same and 10.1 percent don't know," said Deni. The SMRC survey was conducted from 8 to 16 December involving 2,420 respondents from various regions. The method in this survey uses multistage random sampling, with a margin of error of 2.2 percent at a 95 percent confidence level.