EXAMINING CHALLENGES OF THE PROSECUTORS ERADICATING CORRUPTION WITHIN CAPITAL EXPENDITURES IN INDONESIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Abstract

Objectives: This study explores corruption in the capital expenditure of local governments and prosecutor officials’ failure to combat it. This is associated with the rampant corruption in the procurement (called capital expenditure) of local governments in Indonesia, with a corruption risk of 79%. This prevalent corruption aligns with the escalating complex challenges faced by the prosecutors in its endeavors to unveil and address it. Method: This study scrutinizes archival data and field data used an instrumental case study strategy within the framework of Actor Network Theory (ANT). We get field data through in-depth interviews involving 56 key informants in Yogyakarta's City and Regencies—specifically, Sleman Regency, Bantul Regency, and Yogyakarta City. Results: The findings of this investigation underscore the formidable challenges encountered by prosecutors in addressing corruption within the realm of capital expenditure in local government. First, the deficient financial acuity of prosecutors obstructs the exhaustive gathering of information pertaining to corrupt practices in capital expenditure, consequently complicating their ability to combat corruption effectively. Second, these officials grapple with interventions that further complicate their efforts to tackle corruption, as a result exacerbating the intricacies of the task they are currently facing. Conclusions: This research contribute originally to develop an analysis to decipher the local prosecutor officials fail in combating local corruption effectively, in which useful enhance anti-corruption strategies related to execution of local capital expenditures. The study also provides an insight to improve the understanding of local and national policymakers dealing with the corruption eradication ineffectively in capital expenditures.