Decaying Institutions
We have yet to hear responses from the country’s political elite on signs that post-reform institutions are decaying. Lest they think, “should I care?”
A worker cleans the logo of the Corruption Eradication Commission at the KPK Building, Jakarta, Monday (5/2/2018).
Institutions that were born out of the reform movement, such as the Constitutional Court (MK), the Regional Representatives Council (DPD) and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), need to be evaluated. This headlined the Kompas daily on Monday, 27 March 2023.
The Kompas daily wrote that according to a longitudinal survey conducted between 2015-2023, public perception of these institutions have been on the decline. The image of the KPK, for one, peaked in January 2015 at 88.5 percent and had fallen to 52.1 percent. The court, which was a powerful institution during the reform era, once reached 75.1 percent, but now sits at 57.5 percent. Moreover, the image of the DPD peaked at 62.1 percent in January 2015 and now remains at 52 percent.