Efforts to eradicate corruption in Indonesia are still the main focus of the government. Many efforts have been made by the government in the context of eradicating corruption, both prevention and eradication efforts.
The President of the Republic of Indonesia assigned BPS (BPS) to explicitly measure the indicators in Strategy V, namely to increase efforts in education and anti-corruption culture. This fifth strategy is considered important because one of the root causes of the development of corrupt practices is suspected to come from the low integrity of the perpetrators and the permissive culture of corruption, especially the permissive attitudes of the public towards corrupt behavior that occurs around them. To support this strategy, data support from survey results is needed, which is expected to be a baseline that provides a map of problems and directions for the preparation of a cultural transformation program from a permissive one towards an anti-corruption culture.
To meet the data needs, BPS conducted the Anti-Corruption Behavior Survey (SPAK) in 2022.
The SPAK implementation in Tegal Regency was held from April 13 to May 4, 2022 with sample locations located in 4 villages in 4 sub-districts, BPS dispatched two field enumerators and one supervisor/investigator.
Most people still think that corrupt behavior is only carried out by government officials and employees. Whereas this corrupt behavior can occur in all circles, both officials and the general public. In general, this survey aims to collect public opinion regarding corrupt behaviors that often occur in their environment.
The collection of respondents' opinions in this survey, starting from questions about corrupt behavior in the household, for example questions about the reasonableness of the behavior of household members who borrow goods belonging to other household members without permission, the behavior of a wife who is silent and accepts only when her partner gives excess money.
In addition to questions about behavior in the household, it is also asked about the reasonableness of behavior that occurs in the community or the surrounding environment, for example the reasonableness of an RT/RW head who helps distribute envelopes from one village head candidate to his residents so that they vote for that candidate.
Next is the question of the reasonableness of behavior that occurs in the public area, such as the question of the reasonableness of the behavior of giving additional money to officers, so that the service process in a government agency can be facilitated or accelerated.
The respondent's experience dealing with public services as well as the experience of encountering corrupt behavior from the environment was also explored from this survey.
Hopefully, with the implementation of this SPAK enumeration, the results can bring significant changes to efforts to eradicate corruption in Indonesia. (AdhiZul)
