Public Knowledge Of Corruption Is High But Unfortunately Behavior Is Not Anti-Corruption

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) agrees that the public will know more about corruption. However, this knowledge is not based on the attitude to stay away from this practice.

"Our society understands corruption even more. However, when we measure their behavior, it is not in line with understanding," said KPK Deputy Chair Alexander Marwata in a YouTube broadcast by the Indonesian Ministry of Finance quoted Wednesday, December 14.

From that measurement, it is known that there are still many people who give money to state officials. This is even considered a normal practice and must be done to speed up licensing and administration.

"Giving something to state officials, it is still considered normal," said Alexander.

In addition, most people do not feel guilty after giving money. In fact, Alexander once heard directly that there were businessmen who said that taking care of permits was not free.

"People when managing permits he gives something is also not something that makes them feel guilty. Naturally. Businesses like that, no licensing is free," he said.

"They conveyed that, entrepreneurs. 'There is no free licensing. If our economy is still profitable, there is no problem'," continued Alexander, imitating the statements of the businessmen.

Alexander reminded that this condition should be a common concern. Moreover, eradicating corruption is not just the work of the KPK.

"We have to fix a lot of things to prevent corruption," he said.

He also reminded that currently the Indonesian Corruption Perception Index (GPA) is stagnant at 37-38. Alexander said this was not a fun number but showed that efforts to eradicate corruption had not succeeded.

"If we make it a benchmark for the success of eradicating corruption, yes, it has not shown encouraging results," he concluded.