Implications of Changes to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Regulations on Accelerating the Eradication of Corruption in Indonesia

As a state entity, the KPK is immune from the influence of any authority in the performance of its functions and authorities, in accordance with the Corruption Prevention Commission (KPK) Law No. 30 of 2002, Article 3. This independent position was changed in 2019 through Law No. 19 (Revision of the KPK Law 2019), by placing the KPK’s role in the executive branch as a state entity cluster, as a central government institution, a portion of the government’s authority, and part of the executive power 2002 whose duties and authority lie in the prevention and elimination of crimes related to corruption. With this change, the independence of the KPK, which was the main principle on which the KPK was formed, automatically disappeared, along with several other changes. This greatly affects the performance of the KPK in accelerating the eradication of corruption in Indonesia. Most of the politicians involved in the amendment of the KPK Law have achieved their target, as seen in the period from 2019 to 2025. The implications for the KPK’s work in uncovering major corruption cases have decreased considerably. This is evident from Indonesia’s declining CPI score, which has fluctuated and failed to reach its highest score since 2019, when the KPK Law was intensively revised. Even today, what is more prominent is the performance of corruption elimination by the police and the prosecutor’s office, which is inversely proportional to the years prior to the 2019 KPK Law amendment.