TEMPO Interactive, Mataram: The Indonesian index on corruption perception reaches 2.6 in 2008. This is higher than the index in 2004 which was only 2.0.<\/p>\n
The increase in the index was reported by the Secretary of the State Minister for Administrative Reforms, Tasdik Kinanto, at a regional coordinating meeting for eastern areas that was attended by officials from 220 cities\/regencies in 12 provinces, on Wednesday (15\/7) in Senggigi, Lombok.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe index criteria are approved internationally,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The index is based on independent surveys with foreign and local businessmen as respondents.<\/p>\n
It is about their perception of corruption carried out by public officials over license arrangement, taxation and procurement of government goods and services, goods management at harbors and illegal levies.<\/p>\n
West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Vice Governor, Badrul Munir, said that NTB had saved state funds amounting to Rp4.8 billion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could not do this before,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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