Potential Conflict Of Higher Interest, Regional Heads Who Are Still Entrepreneurs Disorted By The KPK

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JAKARTA - The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) highlighted the existence of politicians to regional heads who remained entrepreneurs when they became officials. In fact, this has the potential to cause conflicts of interest. This highlight was conveyed by the Deputy for Prevention and Monitoring of the KPK Pahala Nainggolan. He said, this conflict of interest within the government played a role in making Indonesia's corruption perception index (GPA) drop by four points. "Politicians, heads of institutions, and regional heads can become business people and have no conflict of interest rules," Pahala said in a written statement, Wednesday, February 1. Pahala said that currently the mode of corruption in the procurement of goods and services has reached which is handled by the KPK, reaching 277 cases. Meanwhile, regarding bribery, the number reached 25 cases. Most of these practices are thought to have occurred due to conflicts of interest. However, improvement efforts have not been made, including making rules that prevent conflicts of interest. "To reduce risk, it requires breakthrough and desire," said Pahala. Pahala reminded all policy makers to play a role in boosting the GPA in the country. He said, this effort must be carried out in a sustainable manner. "It takes real commitments and new breakthroughs to answer various challenges in eradicating corruption," he said. As previously reported, Indonesia's GPA has dropped four points from 38 to 34. This assessment was conveyed by Transparency International Indonesia (TII). "Indonesia's CPI in 2022 is at a score of 34 on a scale of 100 and is ranked 110 out of 180 countries surveyed. This score has dropped four points from 2021 and is the most drastic decline since 1995," said Deputy Transparency International Indonesia (TII) Wawan Suyatmiko in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 31. There are three data sources that have decreased compared to the previous year, namely PRS which slumped 13 points; IMD World Competitiveness chance which fell 5 points; and PERC Asia which fell by 3 points. Furthermore, there are three sources of data that have stagnation, namely the Global Insight, Bertelsmann Transformation Index, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. While the ones that have increased are the World Justice Project – Rule of Law Index and Varieties of Democracy Project (VDem). With a GPA of 34, Indonesia is now below Timor Leste and Vietnam which got a score of 42. Meanwhile, for Southeast Asia, Singapore is a country that is considered least corrupt with a score of 83. Meanwhile, at the global level, Denmark was ranked first with a GPA 90 followed by Finland and New Zealand with IPK 87, Norway 84, Singapore and Sweden 83 and Switzerland 82. While in the lowest position there was Somalia with a score of 12. Syria and South Sudan won the score 13 and Venezuela got a score of 14.