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Indonesia Moves Up in Corruption Control and Outshines Several Regional Neighbors in Voice and Accountability
JAKARTA , June 24, 2008 – The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) update was released today. Indonesia’s push to improve governance and reduce corruption has continued to pay off across the board and with measures on Voice & Accountability, Control of Corruption and Government Effectiveness improving substantially over the last several years. “The progress is a reflection of a country whose political leaders, policymakers, civil society and private sector view good governance as and corruption control as crucial for sustained and shared growth,” said Daniel Kaufmann, co-author of the report and Director of Governance at the World Bank Institute. “A decade into the reform era, Indonesia bears all the hallmarks of a thriving democracy – freedom of expression, freedom of association, freedom of the press, and now freedom of public information,” The WGI measures six broad categories of governance: voice and accountability; political stability and absence of violence; government effectiveness; regulatory quality; rule of law; and control of corruption. This year’s update, entitled Governance Matters VII, is the seventh installment in a ten-year study by World Bank researchers. The report sees Indonesia moving up in all six indicators, and in fact now outperforming other countries in the Region on voice and accountability. “Indonesia’s steady improvement in the rating on control of corruption, year after year, is most encouraging,” said Joachim von Amsberg, Indonesia Country Director, World Bank. “However, despite these improvements, Indonesia’s ranking shows that the fight against corruption is a long-term effort and that there is still a long way to go. Further actions to fight corruption can contribute a lot to social and economic progress.” The WGI report is an effort to build a comprehensive cross-country set of governance indicators. The indicators cover 212 countries and territories, drawing on 35 different data sources to capture the views of tens of thousands of survey respondents worldwide, as well as thousands of experts in the private, NGO and public sectors. The WGI are used by policymakers and civil society groups worldwide as a tool to assess governance challenges and monitor reforms, and by academics researching the causes and consequences of good governance. The full “Governance Matters VII” paper, the synthesis of the main findings, and the new WGI data update are available at http://www.govindicators.org To learn more about the World Bank’s support for Indonesia visit: www.worldbank.org/id - | 
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