Bribery in Indonesia Context
Bribery and Justice in Indonesia (Should you pay or not pay bribe?) Introduction Bribery is one of the moral problems still we face in Indonesia. Kuncoro states based on detailed survey, in 2001 firms report spending on average over 8% of costs on bribes and over 10% of management time in “smoothing business operations” with local officials [1] . Indonesia Corruption Perception Index (CPI) is increase from 2.8 (2008) to 3.00 (2011) [2] . But still in its efforts to eradicate corruption, the country occupied a position 100 of 183 countries measured. In ASEAN region, score of Indonesia CPI is under Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Malaysia. Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have lower scores than Indonesia [3] . What are Christian responses against the bribery case around them? Is it enough just to abstain from bribes when we are required to give a bribe illegally? I think we should not only be abstaining from doing bribe, but also we should thin...