Political Corruption
The pace of democratic development and bureaucratic reform in Indonesia has suffered from two blows at once: declines in both the Democracy Index and the Corruption Perception Index.
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General Elections Commission (KPU) commissioner Wahyu Setiawan, wearing a detention vest, sits in a car ready to transport him to detention on 23 Jan. 2020 at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Wahyu was questioned as a suspect in a bribery case surrounding the replacement of a lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).
The pace of democratic development and bureaucratic reform in Indonesia has suffered from two blows at once: declines in both the Democracy Index and the Corruption Perception Index. In the Democracy Index, developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Indonesia\'s score in 2020 was only 6.30 on a scale of zero to 10, the country\'s lowest score in 14 years. Meanwhile, Indonesia\'s Corruption Perception Index dropped three points from 40 in 2019 to 37 in 2020.
There are many factors that have given birth to this phenomenon. One thing that should be emphasized is that the decline in Indonesia\'s performance in the two indexes is actually related. The backward movements in both democracy and the eradication of corruption reflect the growing grip of "political corruption" in this country.