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This project has been developed over the last 10 months with the support form the Basel Institute on Governance’s Public Governance division and funding from GIZ.\n\nThe launch of “Kanal KPK” came as part of KPK’s efforts to expand communication channels with stakeholders and allow for direct exchange of information and dialogue. Commenting on the initiative, Commissioner Bambang Widjojanto said at the launch that the radio-streaming service would enable KPK to communicate with all the people of Indonesia. He further elaborated that the media has reported on several issues but have not thoroughly covered the topic of corruption, and the launch of Kanal KPK aims to fill this gap.\n\nThe Institute’s team of experts worked closely with KPK on setting up the radio department. This included strategic planning support, on-job training, developing the Kanal KPK brand, defining the key messages, developing the schedule of programs and providing on-site support before and after the launch. More information can be found on [www.kpk.go.id](http:\u002F\u002Fwww.kpk.go.id).","2013-08-17",[14],"","kpk-launches-radio-streaming-supported-by-basel-institute-on-governance-527",[17],"Anti-corruption interventions",527,[],[17],null,[23],"Main page",[25],{"id":26,"news_id":27,"countries_id":41},7761,{"id":5,"status":6,"user_created":28,"date_created":7,"user_updated":29,"date_updated":8,"title":9,"type":10,"body":11,"image":21,"date":12,"topic":30,"slug":15,"activity":31,"nid":18,"topics":32,"activities":33,"programme":21,"area":21,"websites":34,"translation_of":21,"language":21,"countries":35,"tags":36,"authors":37,"images":38,"translations":39,"content":40},"03bebfd8-0b40-4a2a-820d-b9d9c13b9de6","b0662e2a-864d-4888-a1b7-4342b7570b30",[14],[17],[],[17],[23],[26],[],[],[],[],[],{"id":42,"name":43,"code":44,"latitude":45,"longitude":46},99,"Indonesia","ID",-0.78927,113.92133,[],[],[],[],[],[53,80,103,133],{"id":54,"body":55,"status":6,"type":10,"date":56,"slug":57,"title":58,"image":59,"countries":60,"topic":62,"activity":64,"tags":66,"nid":67,"topics":68,"activities":70,"authors":71,"images":72,"websites":73,"area":21,"programme":21,"language":21,"translations":74,"translation_of":21,"user_created":28,"date_created":75,"user_updated":76,"date_updated":77,"content":78,"link":79},9798,"During 14–18 October 2019, experts from the [International Centre for Asset Recovery](\u002Fnode\u002F25) (ICAR) conducted a 5-day training workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia as part of USAID CEGAH’s on-going programming with KPK (Corruption Eradication Commission), Office of the Attorney-General (AGO) and Ministry of Law and Human Rights relating to beneficial ownership. The [workshop](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fasset-recovery\u002Ftraining-programmes) once again brought together 22 prosecutors and investigators from the KPK and AGO, and representatives of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.\n\nInvestigators and prosecutors require the skills and knowledge to unravel corporate and trust entities, and to formulate proper requests in order to follow leads for crucial information and obtain all critical foreign evidence. This is of particular importance in transnational investigations with a foreign component and where the proceeds of crime are stashed abroad.\n\nThis workshop aimed at enhancing capacity to formulate proper Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests in order to follow leads for crucial information held abroad. It focused on securing all critical foreign evidence, and unravelling corporate and trust entities.\n\nIn addition to focusing on drafting MLA requests, the workshop incorporated presentations on offshore corporations, trusts, ease of incorporation, secrecy, layering of trust and shell companies, ability to identify beneficial ownership and offshore banking. \n\nParticipants learnt how various offshore structures, when combined with offshore banking, provide creative and successful mechanisms for hiding illegal income. Criminals succeed in distancing themselves from the beneficial ownership of stolen assets but at the same time enjoying the ultimate benefit.\n\nShell companies, when used illicitly, are generally used in combination with additional mechanisms to obscure beneficial ownership. By adding layers of corporate vehicles, hiding behind bearer shares, and ensuring that the beneficial owners are located (or the identifying information is stored) in another jurisdiction, criminals often succeed in thwarting attempts to uncover illegal activity and trace stolen assets.\n\nBy understanding what is meant by a corporate vehicle or structure, particularly in the context of offshore jurisdictions and the variety of vehicles offered, investigators and prosecutors are able to dispel the mystique often associated with criminal investigations involving such structures. During the training, they enhanced their knowledge of the different kinds of corporate vehicles available in foreign countries and their licit and illicit uses to increase the chances of following the money trail in major corruption and money laundering cases.","2019-10-21","icar-training-mutual-legal-assistance-and-the-use-of-offshore-structures-to-conceal-beneficial-ownership-of-illicit-assets-1012","ICAR training: Mutual Legal Assistance and the use of offshore structures to conceal beneficial ownership of illicit assets","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002F53122921-4774-43ef-8722-75ec5d1d0dd5?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[61],7445,[63],"Asset Recovery",[65],"Training",[],1012,[69],"Asset Recovery and Enforcement",[65],[],[],[23],[],"2022-05-26T22:55:49.000Z","3d9ff205-1640-4f34-b5b6-86977f51bbd6","2026-05-29T22:21:56.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Ficar-training-mutual-legal-assistance-and-the-use-of-offshore-structures-to-conceal-beneficial-ownership-of-illicit-assets-1012",{"id":81,"body":82,"status":6,"type":10,"date":83,"slug":84,"title":85,"image":86,"countries":87,"topic":89,"activity":90,"tags":91,"nid":92,"topics":93,"activities":94,"authors":95,"images":96,"websites":97,"area":21,"programme":21,"language":21,"translations":98,"translation_of":21,"user_created":28,"date_created":99,"user_updated":76,"date_updated":100,"content":101,"link":102},10226,"In the context of ICAR's one-year multi-phase training programme in financial investigation and asset recovery for the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), funded by USAID\u002FManagement Systems International, ICAR has developed a series of new training modules jointly with the International Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (IACRC).\n\nThis series includes modules on financial investigation in procurement and in mega construction projects, in the oil & gas industry and in the forestry sector, as well as modules on financial investigation challenges related to the use of offshore corporate structures.\n\nSince December 2013, these new sessions have been rolled out in a series of training workshops to practitioners of the KPK, tailor-made to the Indonesian legal and institutional context.","2014-05-01","development-of-new-financial-investigation-training-modules-for-indonesia-513","Development of new financial investigation training modules for Indonesia","\u002Fpics\u002Fimg-placeholder.png",[88],7750,[63],[65],[],513,[69],[65],[],[],[23],[],"2022-05-26T22:59:32.000Z","2026-05-29T22:22:19.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fdevelopment-of-new-financial-investigation-training-modules-for-indonesia-513",{"id":104,"body":105,"status":6,"type":106,"date":107,"slug":108,"title":109,"image":110,"countries":111,"topic":113,"activity":114,"tags":116,"nid":121,"topics":122,"activities":123,"authors":124,"images":126,"websites":127,"area":21,"programme":21,"language":21,"translations":128,"translation_of":21,"user_created":28,"date_created":129,"user_updated":76,"date_updated":130,"content":131,"link":132},9711,"At a virtual meeting attended by around 900 Indonesian anti-corruption professionals on 8 July, Senior Asset Recovery Specialist Jonathan Spicer gave practical advice on how to succeed in obtaining mutual legal assistance (MLA) in corruption and money laundering cases.\n\nMLA is a crucial form of [international cooperation](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fblog\u002Fshane-nainappans-quick-guide-international-cooperation-asset-recovery) in cases of grand corruption and money laundering, which often involve multiple jurisdictions. Through MLA, investigators and prosecutors can obtain evidence located in another country by asking that country to use its law to seize the evidence. MLA is most commonly used where a prosecutor’s or court order is required to obtain the evidence, for example for the search of premises or the production of banking documents.\n\nWebinar participants included members of the Indonesian anti-corruption agency, the KPK, as well as police officers, financial intelligence analysts, judges and internal auditors.\n\n### MLA in 45 minutes\n\nAmong other practical advice, Joe covered:\n\n*   First steps, such as engaging early with overseas authorities, checking guidelines and making full use of informal methods of cooperation.\n*   Barriers to successful MLA, which include differences in legal traditions and confiscation systems, procedural variations and human rights\u002Fpolitical considerations.\n*   Limits on the use of evidence provided through MLA.\n*   Delays, which are sometimes due to states giving individuals affected by a request the opportunity to object.\n\n### Exploring dual criminality\n\nJoe went into detail on the issue of dual criminality, which is the requirement that the criminal activity being investigated or prosecuted is a criminal offence in both countries.\n\nNarrow interpretations of dual criminality have resulted in refusals to execute MLA requests. The progressive approach is for countries to consider whether the conduct being investigated would be a criminal offence in their jurisdiction even if labelled differently. This is why countries submitting MLA requests should give as clear as possible descriptions of the criminal activity that is being investigated, as a means of overcoming dual criminality.\n\n### Advice based on on-the-ground experience\n\nMLA is a significant hurdle for many victim states seeking to recover stolen assets from foreign jurisdictions, and is an important part of [ICAR's assistance to its partner countries](\u002Fnode\u002F25). Based on his own and colleagues’ on-the-ground experiences, Joe's presentation included some practical tips on how to write MLA request and avoid common flaws.\n\nForthcoming editions of our [quick guide series](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fpublications?type=2428) will see Joe explaining about how MLA works, top tips on how to get your request accepted and executed, and looking at some of the alternatives to MLA that have been developed.\n\n### See also\n\n*   [Our recommendations to the UNGASS on enabling full cooperation in asset recovery matters](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Frecommendations-ungass-enabling-full-cooperation-asset-recovery-matters), including a recommendation on dual criminality.\n*   [Takeaways from the 2nd Africa-Europe Dialogue on Asset Recovery on 2019](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fnews\u002Fasset-recovery-sustainable-development-takeaways-2nd-africa-europe-dialogue-asset-recovery), including on cooperation and dual criminality.","Blog","2020-07-09","mutual-legal-assistance-in-practice-presentation-for-indonesian-anti-corruption-officials-1808","Mutual legal assistance in practice: presentation for Indonesian anti-corruption officials","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Ff3059aaf-9597-48b1-9fcd-b0c11392fffe?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[112],7411,[63],[115],"Presentations",[117],{"tags_id":118},{"id":119,"name":120},822,"International cooperation",1808,[69],[115],[125],1223,[],[23],[],"2022-05-26T22:54:38.000Z","2026-05-29T22:21:51.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fmutual-legal-assistance-in-practice-presentation-for-indonesian-anti-corruption-officials-1808",{"id":134,"body":135,"status":6,"type":106,"date":136,"slug":137,"title":138,"image":139,"countries":140,"topic":142,"activity":144,"tags":148,"nid":161,"topics":162,"activities":163,"authors":164,"images":167,"websites":168,"area":21,"programme":21,"language":21,"translations":169,"translation_of":21,"user_created":28,"date_created":170,"user_updated":29,"date_updated":171,"content":172,"link":173},9562,"Emerging economies have long struggled with the question of how to combine economic development with sustainable use of natural resources. How does corruption factor into this combination?\n\nOur recent survey of Indonesians’ attitudes to corruption, environmental degradation and the economy reveals what we call the Green Corruption paradox: Conflicting, and arguably mutually exclusive, views on all three topics can co-exist. Despite seeing the presence of and being deeply concerned about corruption and environmental degradation, people tend to focus on livelihoods when times are hard.\n\nPeople also, according to the survey data, favour economic structures that appear to channel the benefits of natural resource utilisation more directly to citizens. In Indonesia, this means rejecting private companies – particularly foreign-owned – in favour of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and people’s cooperatives.\n\nGiven that the governance structures of both remain weak, as evidenced in part by numerous corruption cases involving SOEs, this “trust credit” creates tremendous expectations of SOEs’ future behaviour. This can only be ensured through the systematic mitigation of corruption risks in these vast, crucial and proliferating institutions.\n\nThis requires bold leadership that has historically been provided by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). Unfortunately, our survey shows a steady and significant decline of trust in the KPK, losing 20 points (from 90% to 70%) in the last five years, with the lion’s share of the loss occurring since late 2019.\n\n### Fears, beliefs and contradictions – what the survey revealed\n\nTogether with Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI), the leading Indonesian pollster, we ran a national public opinion survey conducted via telephone in July 2021 covering 2,580 respondents. In-depth face-to-face interviews also took place with 30 private-sector representatives working in various natural resource sectors.\n\nAccording to the survey data, Indonesians harbour great reservations about corruption levels generally. The share of the public that says corruption has increased over the last two years is at its second highest level (60%) in the five years that LSI has been measuring this question. The survey also revealed serious concerns about high levels of corruption in the natural resource sector specifically, and about worsening environmental degradation.\n\nYet despite this, two thirds of respondents say they believe that some profitable industries based on Indonesia’s rich natural resources, including plantations for palm oil and rubber, are not harmful to the environment.\n\nMoreover, even when environmental degradation is clearly the result of natural resource exploitation, a majority believes that this is acceptable because of the economic benefits that it brings. This attitude may be exacerbated by the depressed economic situation: a full two-thirds of the participants see the current state of the economy as bad or very bad.\n\nDespite this pessimistic assessment of both the economy and overall corruption levels, trust in government remains high. A full three quarters of participants believe the government can be trusted to be a steward of the environment. The same percentage say the government is doing its best to balance economic growth and environmental degradation.\n\nThis trust in government, including in agencies in charge of natural resource management, cohabitates uncomfortably with citizens’ assessment of the level of corruption in these sectors. When asked about a wide array of activities to utilise natural resources, respondents who had an opinion were between two and three times more likely to say that corruption is widespread or very widespread. Clearly, citizens are not naïve about the governance risks that natural resource exploitation brings with it.\n\nSo, the public generally is concerned about corruption and environmental degradation. People also have strong concerns about worsening corruption in the country overall and high levels of corruption in natural resource exploitation in particular. One would think that these concerns would make natural resource sectors highly unattractive. Yet this is not the case.\n\nBased on our analysis of the survey data, we believe the economic benefits of natural resource exploitation are what lead respondents to suspend their otherwise highly sceptical attitude when it comes to the harmfulness of some environmental practices.\n\nThis uncomfortable acceptance of natural resource exploitation is further emphasised when a majority of the respondents say that where environmental degradation occurs, it is outweighed by the economic benefits the exploitation brings.\n\n### Resource nationalism is alive and well\n\nConcerns about corruption and the environment, one might suppose, could lead to a welcoming of foreign investors with their environmental, social and governance (ESG)-friendly ratings and compliance systems.\n\nThis would be a mistake, however, as according to the survey the Indonesian public is highly critical of any involvement of foreign companies – or even any foreign investment – in the natural resource field. The share of respondents that support curbs on foreign investment in environmental exploitation is between four and seven times higher (depending on the sector) than those who do not desire such curbs. This is despite the significant economic hardship the country is experiencing.\n\nThis severe dislike of foreign companies is not because they are perceived as more corrupt or more polluting. Rather, the top three reasons are all variations of resource nationalism: foreign companies don’t have Indonesian interests at heart, Indonesia should not compromise its independence, and the expectation that state revenue will be greater without foreign companies.\n\n### Economic benefits of natural resource exploitation should flow to citizens\n\nWho, then, should be managing Indonesia’s natural resources? Clearly not Indonesian companies, as the public is overwhelmingly critical of them too. In no sector do more than 14% of respondents support private companies exploiting natural resources.\n\nThe answers, according to respondents, are people’s cooperatives and SOEs. Cooperatives are at least twice as popular as private companies (mining) and up to four times more popular (fishing). A majority of respondents also strongly endorsed SOEs and claimed they can be trusted to manage natural resources for the benefit of the people.\n\nBoth preferences appear to rest on the belief that natural resources are a public good that should be used to directly improve people’s economic conditions. Private companies that are profit-driven are not seen as sufficiently concerned about this.\n\n### Recommendations\n\nAlbeit extensive, this is a single survey at an unusual time in history and we should be wary of drawing strong conclusions. Nevertheless, we believe the results point to some clear takeaways that can inform Indonesian policy and the interventions of donors and civil society organisations concerned with conservation, anti-corruption and sustainable development.\n\n*   Rebuild trust in the KPK as Indonesia’s principal anti-corruption institution. Recent legal, administrative and political measures that have undermined trust in the KPK need to be urgently reversed to restore the agency’s moral authority and ability to lead the highly complex fight against environmental corruption.\n*   Only interventions that address economic, governance and environmental concerns together stand a chance to succeed. The close connection between economic, governance and environmental concerns means that any efforts at conservation must address all three of these points. This heightens the complexity of government reforms and donor programmes in any of these areas. Yet it is essential: working in isolation will only lead to efforts being undermined.\n*   Foreign investors need to grow thick skin. Resource nationalism is a significant obstacle to both foreign investment in the natural resource sector and foreign-supported and -implemented conservation programmes. Foreign actors in the natural resource field need to ensure their systems are sufficiently robust to withstand certain public and likely political criticism.\n*   Strengthen SOE governance. The strong preference of the public for SOEs in the management of natural resources places a tremendous responsibility on both the government and the SOEs themselves. Numerous corruption scandals and conflicts of interest are evidence that this public trust is on credit and must still be earned through tough political decisions, inspired reforms, methodical implementation and diligent monitoring.\n*   Support cooperatives in enhancing their governance. Strengthening the governance systems of cooperatives is likely more diffuse and painstaking than undertaking the same exercise in SOEs. However, it should not be neglected considering the environmental, economic and political importance of sectors in which cooperatives are strongly present, such as fishing.\n\n### Learn more\n\n*   [Download the paper](https:\u002F\u002Fbaselgovernance.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2021-09\u002FGreen%20Paradox%20Indonesia%20Survey%20Report%2022%20Sep21.pdf). _The report was made possible with the generous support of the American people through the USAID CEGAH programme._\n*   Find out more about the Basel Institute’s [Green Corruption programme](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.baselgovernance.org\u002Fgreen-corruption).","2021-09-22","the-green-corruption-paradox-how-indonesians-view-corruption-the-environment-and-economic-development-2102","The Green Corruption paradox: how Indonesians view corruption, the environment and economic development","https:\u002F\u002Fjam.baselgovernance.org\u002Fapi\u002Fassets\u002Fcb3947b7-ff4c-4f98-9b5f-a9f634e8a653?width=1000&height=650&format=webp&quality=80",[141],7307,[143],"Green Corruption",[145,146,147],"Research","Reports","Insights",[149,153,157],{"tags_id":150},{"id":151,"name":152},859,"Corruption risks",{"tags_id":154},{"id":155,"name":156},1380,"Sustainability",{"tags_id":158},{"id":159,"name":160},1303,"Environment",2102,[143],[145,146,147],[165,166],1184,1185,[],[23],[],"2022-05-26T22:52:31.000Z","2025-08-31T23:14:40.000Z",[],"\u002Fresources\u002Fnews\u002Fthe-green-corruption-paradox-how-indonesians-view-corruption-the-environment-and-economic-development-2102",{"left":175,"top":175,"width":176,"height":176,"rotate":175,"vFlip":177,"hFlip":177,"body":178},0,20,false,"\u003Cpath fill=\"currentColor\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M17 10a.75.75 0 0 1-.75.75H5.612l4.158 3.96a.75.75 0 1 1-1.04 1.08l-5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 0 1 0-1.08l5.5-5.25a.75.75 0 1 1 1.04 1.08L5.612 9.25H16.25A.75.75 0 0 1 17 10\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\u002F>",1780676461637]