Most business players in the country tend to pay bribes to public officers, including government officials, to smooth their business, a survey conducted by the Transparency International (TI) reveals.
TI found in its latest survey that corruption remained unchecked in Indonesia, involving up to 60 percent of businesspeople in the country.
The report is part of the 2009 Global Corruption Report (GCR) on the private sector, which surveyed 2,700 businesspeople in 26 countries across the globe in 2008.
“We conducted a global corruption survey on aviation and logging companies in Indonesia,” Transparency International Indonesia secretary-general Teten Masduki said Wednesday in Jakarta.
“We discovered 60 percent of businesspeople from these sectors bribed the authorities and public institutions to win projects.”
The same proportion of businesspeople engaged in corruption in Egypt, India, Morocco, Nigeria and Pakistan, the survey found.
“The business sector has played a role as a centre of corrupt transactions among civil servants, officials and politicians,” Teten said, adding businesspeople only committed bribery because they had no other options. (naf)
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