TY - JOUR
T1 - Spread of corruption in Indonesia after decentralisation
T2 - a spatiotemporal analysis
AU - Yunan, Zuhairan Yunmi
AU - Freyens, Ben
AU - Vidyattama, Yogi
AU - Mohanty, Itismita
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Religious Affair (MORA), Republic of Indonesia and The Indonesia Endowment Funds for Education (LPDP) for funding that supported the conduct of this study. We would also like to thank the Economics Laboratory, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), for giving us access to judicially-reported corruption data from the Supreme Court of the Republic of Indonesia. The views and interpretations presented here are the authors’ own and should not be assumed to represent those of their respective institutions nor those of the institutions that funded or helped facilitate our research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Oxford Department of International Development.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The end of the Suharto era in 1998 brought two prominent reforms to Indonesia: (i) a raft of anti-corruption policies and (ii) decentralisation of administrative and fiscal functions. District-level reported corruption swelled in following years and the role of decentralisation came under scrutiny, but data limitations prevented direct examination of a contributing role. This paper combines perceived and reported (observed) regional measures of corruption to examine spatiotemporal corruption patterns across Indonesian districts post-decentralisation. That period saw both improvements in perceptions measures and increases in the reported number of convicted perpetrators and in the reported value of financial loss. Cross-sectional comparisons show corruption perceptions (i) were milder in districts with less reported incidents of corruption, and (ii) responded positively to efforts by the judiciary and law enforcement agencies to curb corruption. These findings suggest that increased capability and resources allocated to combatting corruption play a large role in determining corruption perceptions.
AB - The end of the Suharto era in 1998 brought two prominent reforms to Indonesia: (i) a raft of anti-corruption policies and (ii) decentralisation of administrative and fiscal functions. District-level reported corruption swelled in following years and the role of decentralisation came under scrutiny, but data limitations prevented direct examination of a contributing role. This paper combines perceived and reported (observed) regional measures of corruption to examine spatiotemporal corruption patterns across Indonesian districts post-decentralisation. That period saw both improvements in perceptions measures and increases in the reported number of convicted perpetrators and in the reported value of financial loss. Cross-sectional comparisons show corruption perceptions (i) were milder in districts with less reported incidents of corruption, and (ii) responded positively to efforts by the judiciary and law enforcement agencies to curb corruption. These findings suggest that increased capability and resources allocated to combatting corruption play a large role in determining corruption perceptions.
KW - Corruption patterns
KW - decentralisation
KW - spatiotemporal analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145503422&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13600818.2022.2162493
DO - 10.1080/13600818.2022.2162493
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85145503422
SP - 1
EP - 19
JO - Oxford Agrarian Studies
JF - Oxford Agrarian Studies
SN - 1360-0818
ER -