USAID Anti-Corruption Program in Indonesia

Corruption has significant impacts on economic growth, resource allocation, and the legitimacy of democratic institutions. The program's importance lies in its multi-partner approach, engaging government, citizens' groups, and media to address corruption on both supply and demand sides. The program operates at national and subnational levels, directly and indirectly supporting other USAID programs. The program has undergone several iterations since its inception in 2007. The first phase, ICCP, was managed by USAID from 2007 to 2011 and targeted key institutions, including the Supreme Court, KPK, PPATK, LKPP, and Bappenas. The second phase, SIAP 1, focused on strengthening integrity and accountability from 2011 to 2016, with beneficiaries including KPK, BPK, Kemenpan-RB, Ombudsman RI, KIP, and CSOs. The third phase, SIAP 2, targeted CSOs as beneficiaries and was implemented from 2016 to 2021. The Country Development and Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) serves as a guiding framework for the program, linking high-level objectives with program interventions. The CDCS is a mandatory but not prescriptive document that provides overall direction to programs and links to the U.S. Embassy's Integrated Country Strategy (ICS). The CDCS has a five-year duration and involves host country consultations. The CDCS has several key objectives, including a stronger Indonesia advancing national and global development, increased global development priorities of mutual interest, and advanced democratic governance. The program also focuses on key themes such as equity, gender, governance, partnership, and public outreach. The USAID/Indonesia CDCS 2013-2018 aims to improve accountability, improve the capacity of key accountability institutions, and enhance civic participation. The program has several components, including the CEGAH Project, which is a key initiative aimed at strengthening Indonesia's accountability through three primary components. The project has a total budget of $20.8 million and a duration of five years. The project's objective is to improve the effectiveness of the justice sector in prosecuting and adjudicating corruption cases, strengthen key government institutions, and increase civil society initiatives on accountability. The CEGAH Project has several sub-intermediate results, including a 20% increase in the effectiveness of the justice sector in prosecuting and adjudicating corruption cases, a 55% strengthening of key government institutions, and a 25% increase in civil society initiatives on accountability. The project has three components: Enhancing Justice Sector, Supporting Prevention by the GOI Accountability Institutions, and Enhancing Public Oversight. The Enhancing Justice Sector component aims to improve court performance using corruption case data, decrease discrepancies in corruption case data, and improve anti-corruption learning in higher education. The Supporting Prevention by the GOI Accountability Institutions component focuses on strengthening external oversight, improving performance capacity, increasing public input for public services, and increasing public access to government information. The Enhancing Public Oversight component aims to increase CSO engagement with the GOI to make services more accountable, enhance public oversight, and increase public access to government information.