KPK: BPS IPAK Survey Calls Village Community More Corrupt Than Urban

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said that rural communities are more corrupt than those in urban areas. This statement was conveyed by the Director of Community Participation Development of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Kumbul Kusdwijanto Sudjadi based on a survey by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). The results of the IPAK BPS (2024) survey also show that the village community turns out to be more corrupt than urban ones. This is of course a target of our common challenge," Kumbul said in the Anti-Corruption Village Expansion Expansion Webinar quoted on Friday, July 19. Kumbul said that the anti-corruption commission had also handled 851 corruption cases occurring in villages until 2022. Of these, red) there were 973 suspects involving the village head and its apparatus. The method, continued Kumbul, was also carried out in various ways. For example, inflating or markup the budget, activities or fictitious projects, fictitious reports to budget embezzlement. This is a concern,' he said.

Thus, in the future the KPK will try to expand the anti-corruption village program. It is hoped that improvements will occur so that the number of fraudulent practices can be reduced. Moreover, villages play an important role as regulated in Law Number 6 of 2014. Hopefully, if this is anti-corruption, it can rise to the anti-corruption sub-district level, another step up to the city/district level until it ends with an Indonesian country free from corruption," concluded Kumbul.