A Note on Anticorruption Logic

At the end of 2020, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) surprisingly launched successful stings against two ministers of the government of Joko “Jokowi” Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin.

The KPK’s success closed the year of intense challenges to the corruption eradication drive arising from so much friction between anticorruption activists on one side and the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) on the other, followed by large-scale protests against the revision of the KPK Law.