A Very Brief History of Indonesia Anti-Corruption Survey

Jousairi Hasbullah:
 Indonesia Anti-Corruption Bahavior Survey is one of BPS-Statistics Indonesia important survey to identify people's behavior toward petty corruption.

This survey uses a very comprehensive framework combining international framework and Indonesia's spesific habits toward corruption. This Survey initiated by Indonesia National Planning Board (Bappenas) in collaboration with BPS Statistics Indonesia as an implementing agency/executor of the survey.

The preparation was very intensive. The first meeting between BPS (sairi and team)-Bappenas (ms Diani and team) and also attended by UNODC (ms Monica and team) was on 1 June 2012 at Hotel Santika Jakarta to discuss of the posibility of BPS to conduct the survey.

At the begining, the difficulty was especially related to the framework. We, BPS Statistics Indonesia has no knowledges about people's behaviour toward corruption, but according to Bappenas, Indonesia should conduct the survey because it is the oblligation of the Presidential Regulation number 55 year 2012 about Nasional Strategy toward Corruption Elimination. This regulation was part of Presidential Instruction number 9 year 2011.

The meeting then continued on 6 and 8 of June in Bappenas attended by minister of Planning Ms Armida Alisyahbana. The meeting conclude: BPS the only institution which by law and by its capacity has a right and competecies to do  the Survey.

Starting from July 2012,  I, as a Director of Social Resillient Statistics lead the BPS team. The first step we did was that to learn intensively the framework of Corruption Perception Survey conducted by UN in Western Balkan, literature studies, and also learned much about the methodology of the survey ..We also invite all Indonesian experts on corruption.

Starting from November 2012, BPS then conducted the survey and the result officially announced by BPS Chief Statistician and became very popular in Indonesia.

Jousairi Hasbullah
JSHcenter July, 2018.