Lakso Anindito
Team Leader, Indonesia
Lakso Anindito joined the Basel Institute on Governance in June 2022 as Team Leader, Indonesia. He leads the Institute’s technical engagement in the country, currently under the UK DEFRA IWT CF funded Follow-the-Money project and previously through the USAID INTEGRITAS programme.
Under the Follow-the-Money project, Lakso provides capacity building and technical advice to various Indonesian government partners. His focus is on financial investigations of environmental cases and developing institutional guidelines for anti-money laundering investigations.
Before joining the Basel Institute, Lakso spent 11 years as an investigator and legal specialist at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Presidential office (UKP4 and REDD+ Agency). At the KPK, he focused on corporate criminal liability and risk reduction in natural resource management. He investigated several high-profile cases, including the first case of corporate criminal liability for money laundering at KPK. He also trained internal auditors from SOEs and government investigators at the Anti-Corruption Learning Center.
At the REDD+ Agency, Lakso worked on law enforcement and dispute resolution, piloting a legal compliance audit to prevent forest and land fires. He also supervised the implementation of the “multidoor” enforcement approach for forestry and priority natural resource-related cases.
Lakso is currently pursuing a PhD in Law at the University of Indonesia. He holds a Master of Law in European and International Trade Law from Lund University, Sweden, as a recipient of a Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals, and a Bachelor’s in Law from the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
Publications
Addressing conflicts of interest and corruption in Indonesia’s energy transition
This U4 Issue analyses Indonesia’s ambitious energy transition and highlights how political finance, weak regulations and a “revolving door” of personnel between public office and the private sector create vulnerabilities. The publication was produced by U4 and the Basel Institute on Governance through its Green Corruption programme.
About the paper
Conflicts of interest and corruption in Indonesia’s political economy pose significant risks to its energy transition, including the Just Energy Transition Partnership. Existing legal and institutional frameworks are fragmented, inconsistently applied, and often fail to address the risk of state capture by powerful political and economic actors, especially in the extractive and energy sectors.
The reliance on fossil fuel industries for political financing and the monopolistic nature of state-owned entities further complicate the shift to a low- or no-carbon system, despite the country’s ambitious renewable energy targets.
Potential pathways to greater anti-corruption resilience lie in improvements to beneficial ownership transparency and strengthening regulation, monitoring and sanctioning of conflict of interest violations.
Case Study 12: Indonesia: a landmark money laundering conviction in a forestry crime case
This Case Study highlights how investigators of Indonesia’s Ministry of Environment and Forestry achieved their first conviction for money laundering linked to forestry offences, leveraging institutional and legal changes in financial investigation procedures.
About this Case Study
This publication is part of the Basel Institute on Governance Case Study series, ISSN 2813-3900. It is licensed for sharing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
The development of this publication was funded through the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Challenge Fund.
The contents are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Basel Institute on Governance, its donors and partners, or the University of Basel.
Conflict of interest guidelines for Indonesian public institutions (Pedoman tentang Konflik Kepentingan)
Through the USAID INTEGRITAS programme, KEMITRAAN and its consortium partners – Indonesia Corruption Watch, Transparency International – Indonesia and the Basel Institute on Governance – are working to enhance conflict of interest policy in Indonesia and its implementation.
This guidance has been developed in this context, in order to assist Indonesian government institutions in strengthening controls against conflicts of interest.
It aims to help these institutions to close gaps between existing conflict of interest regulations in Indonesia and international good practices in areas such as regulations, codes of conduct and sanctions.
The document combines sample text with targeted guidance on identifying, avoiding, disclosing, mitigating and sanctioning different forms of conflict of interest. These include external engagements, “revolving doors”, insider trading, family/personal relationships and gifts/entertainment.
By using this guidance to improve their systems and processes for managing conflicts of interest, Indonesian institutions can better prevent corrupt practices such as collusion and nepotism from undermining their operations and integrity.
The guidance is tailored to Indonesia’s specific legal framework, institutional context and historical efforts to prevent and combat corruption.
Acknowledgements and disclaimer
The development of these guidelines was led by the Basel Institute on Governance, in cooperation with KEMITRAAN, Indonesia Corruption Watch and Transparency International Indonesia. The original version was produced in English by the Basel Institute, and was subsequently translated into Bahasa Indonesia by KEMITRAAN.
These guidelines were made possible by the support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the sole responsibility of the Basel Institute on Governance and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
We would like to give credit to Pauline Arifin and Khaerudin for their contributions to the initial development of these guidelines.
Corruption and Infrastructure: Preliminary Study on Corruption Risks in Infrastructure Sector
This preliminary study on corruption risks in infrastructure sector provides an overview of the current legal framework and corruption risks in the infrastructure sector in Indonesia, and offers recommendations for addressing these risks, with a focus on Collective Action as a potential solution.
Indeed, in Indonesia, where infrastructure development has been prioritised, there is a pressing need to address corruption risks to ensure that infrastructure projects contribute to the country’s sustainable economic and social development. The Alliance for Integrity recognises the critical importance of tackling corruption in this sector and works to promote Collective Action approaches that bring together stakeholders to combat corruption.
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