Does the Pandemic Stop Infrastructure Progress in Indonesia?

Indonesia Corruption Watch analyzed infrastructure tenders in 2020 to understand how the country has been performing against the national infrastructure plan during the pandemic. ICW applied OCP’s OCDS & OC4IDS indicators and red flags indicators and this is what they discovered:

Laporan Keuangan ICW 2021
Annual Report ICW 2021

After dropping in 2020, Indonesia's Corruption Perception Index (CPI) will rise again in 2021. With a capital score of 38 (37 in 2020), and ranked 96th in the world (102 in 2020), Indonesia's corruption eradication can simply be said to have improved. But is that so? Referring to TI Indonesia's explanation, the increase in the 2021 GPA score was mostly contributed by the economic sector.

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Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) is an organization in transition. Where it was once a group of committed activists doing the hard work of holding the government accountable, it is now evolving to a growing movement of active citizens.

Indonesia and Infrastructure Tender in 2020
In the past 10 years, 53% of public tenders in Indonesia were about constructions. It is recorded that there had been a 50% increase in the number of corruption cases in infrastructure projects in Indonesia between 2015 and 2018. In 2020, Indonesia carried out 48.83% tender on infrastructure (36,871 tender) from the total of 75,326 tender. In total during 2020, the award value for all infrastructure tenders is IDR 183.77 trillion (USD 12.8 billion).
Public Procurement Reform: How Far Have We Come?
This report brings public contracting trends/patterns linked to competition, efficiency, participation, and integrity and examines how data disclosed and made available on the Opentender platform are being used thus far.
Fact Sheet: The Management and Uptake of Blacklisted Firms Data by Civil Society

Public procurement is essential to development. Fair and equitable development may also lead to better, improved public services. For this reason, substantial budget is typically allocated for public procurement.

Problems arise, however, when the substantial budget lacks government oversight. According to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) data, the KPK prosecuted a total of 1,144 cases from 2004 to 31 March 2021. Of that, 21 percent are public procurement cases.

Public Procurement Contract is Expressly Public Information

The new standards is expected to elucidate the obligations of public bodies in disclosing public procurement information, especially with regards to procurement contract documents. In most cases, public bodies have previously interpreted procurement information to be excluded from public information, therefore inaccessible from public monitoring.

Annual Report ICW 2020
the Indonesian government has allocated an enormous amount of budget, close to IDR 700 trillion, to tackle the pandemic and its impacts. Nearly all procurement processes and budget spending are exercised under an emergency setting.
Opentender.net, the site helping Indonesians spot shady government spending

The portal includes easy-to-use analytics tools that allow anyone to look at corruption risks and other indicators associated with public procurement performance, such as competition, efficiency, and value for money.

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