Corruption in the public procurement sector continues to be a global issue. According to a report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 10-25 percent of public money was lost to corruption in this sector. Meanwhile, in a 2014 report titled “The OECD Foreign Bribery Report”, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) indicated that 57 percent of bribery cases that involved foreign public officials were committed in order to win public contracts.

The Government’s commitment to eradicating and preventing corruption throughout the year 2022 must be questioned. Indisputably, the consistent increase in corruption cases shows that the various efforts made by the Government has increasingly hit a dead end. This is at least reflected in the latest Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International Indonesia (TII) which shows that in 2022 Indonesia will experience a very drastic decrease in its score from 38 to 34.

The practice of concurrent positions continues to be a problem in Indonesia. In general, the concept of concurrent positions is understood as a condition in which one person holds positions, or wields more than one branch of power at the same time.

Good governance requires information disclosure as one of its foundations. Simultaneously, freedom of information is one of the prerequisites for creating an open government. Therefore, laws and regulations in Indonesia place freedom for the public to access information as human rights as stated in Article 28F of the 1945 Constitution. This legal political commitment should be obeyed by all elements of power, especially because Indonesia is a democratic country, where the people's sovereignty guaranteed by laws and regulations.

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:

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.

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.