February 11, 2026 | 07:53 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) score dropped three points from the previous year. In 2024, Indonesia scored 37, while in 2025, its score dropped to 34 out of 100. Indonesia's ranking also dropped from 99th to 109th out of 182 countries. Transparency International released the scores on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) assessed that the Prabowo-Gibran administration over the past year has built an ecosystem that normalizes conflicts of interest, nepotism, and patronage, leading to a decline in the 2025 CPI score. "This situation has implications for weakening law enforcement and further undermining the reform agenda that has been systematically built over the past 27 years," said ICW researcher Yassar Aulia in an official statement on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.
Yassar said that Indonesia's ten-place drop in ranking in one year strongly signals that President Prabowo Subianto's firmness in eradicating corruption has stopped at the level of rhetoric.
One component of the CPI, the IMD Business School World Competitiveness Yearbook index, recorded a drastic drop in Indonesia's score for the prevalence of bribery and corruption, dropping 19 points from 45 to 26. Yassar believes this data indicates that corruption eradication efforts over the past year have been ineffective in creating a deterrent effect.
At the same time, Yassar observed that the House of Representatives (DPR) and the government have not prioritized any legislation that would advance the corruption eradication agenda more effectively. He cited the lack of action to restore the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law to its pre-2019 version, which previously guaranteed the institution's independence.
To date, the government and DPR have also not demonstrated any serious steps to expedite deliberations on the Asset Confiscation Bill or revise the Corruption Eradication Law to align with the mandate of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, for example by criminalizing influence peddling and bribery in the private sector in positive law.
Yassar stated that the decline in the quality of corruption prevention, as reflected in the Bertelsmann Stiftung Transformation index, has contributed to Indonesia's declining CPI score. He believes managing conflicts of interest is one of the most concrete ways to ensure optimal corruption prevention.
However, he believes the government is actually fostering conflicts of interest by distributing strategic positions and strategic project concessions to the president's family, cronies, and inner circle. He highlighted the cabinet's bloated composition, with the majority of deputy ministers concurrently serving as commissioners in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies, and the ownership of the foundation managing the Free Nutritional Meal Kitchen (MBG), which is affiliated with political party cadres, law enforcement officials, and the military.
He also highlighted the appointment of the deputy governor of Bank Indonesia, who is the president's nephew, as a form of nepotism that has the potential to erode the central bank's independence from executive influence. Yassar believes that corruption prevention can only be effective if the House of Representatives (DPR) implements checks and balances on the executive. However, he noted that 470 of the 580 DPR seats are held by Prabowo's coalition, potentially weakening the oversight function.
Yassar cited aspects of law enforcement and access to justice as contributing to the decline in the 2025 CPI score. He considered the president's strategy of relying solely on salary increases to address judicial corruption issues inadequate.
He emphasized the importance of dismantling the judicial mafia network and stopping interference in the independence of the judiciary. For example, by annulling corruption verdicts through the excessive use of authority in the form of amnesty, abolition, or rehabilitation.
Read: Indonesia's Corruption Score on Par with Conflict-Ridden Countries
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