Since all attention was on Indonesia’s general election from May to July, 2009, the citizens eyes have been staring at the way to get the new leaders. Nowadays, a new president-VP and house of representative members have been elected, therefore let us now go back to the real problems of Indonesia, as have been campaigned by many candidates.
One big problem faced by Indonesians is still the high level of corruption in the state income and budget spending. The released survey results from Transparency International in 2008 stated Indonesia as the fifteenth most corrupt country in the world with the score on the corruption perception index of 2.6. Instead of its better condition compared with the last government term, there should be a bigger effort to reduce the corruption to the lowest level. One of the bodies which has a central role in combatting corruption is the State Audit Board of Indonesia (BPK).
However, as the supreme audit board, the BPK has released some significant audit reports related to the effectiveness source and usage of state budget, which is many of them have been neglected by many stakeholders because of the general election. Firstly, the report on special purpose audit of the oil sector amounted to 14.58 trillion Rupiah as a lack of state income (Media Indonesia, 23 April 2009). Secondly, the report on 212 cases of financial management irregularities in the coal mining sector totalled 2.69 trillion rupiah and 778.8 million Dollars (Tambang Magazines, May, 2009).
