Research Article
Examining Challenges of the Prosecutor Officials Combating Corruption of Capital Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Governments
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-10-2021.2316813, author={Haryono Pasang Kamase and Irwan Taufiq Ritonga and Rusdi Akbar and Suyanto Suyanto}, title={Examining Challenges of the Prosecutor Officials Combating Corruption of Capital Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Governments}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship, ICEBE 2021, 7 October 2021, Lampung, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICEBE}, year={2022}, month={4}, keywords={ant capital expenditure corruption local government prosecutor}, doi={10.4108/eai.7-10-2021.2316813} }- Haryono Pasang Kamase
Irwan Taufiq Ritonga
Rusdi Akbar
Suyanto Suyanto
Year: 2022
Examining Challenges of the Prosecutor Officials Combating Corruption of Capital Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Governments
ICEBE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-10-2021.2316813
Abstract
This study explores corruption in capital expenditure of local governments and prosecutor officials' failure to combat it. Applying an instrumental case study strategy through an actor network theory (ANT) approach, the study analyzes archival data and field data got from in-depth interviews with 67 key informants in DI Yogyakarta’s Regency/City. The results highlight the prosecutor officials face two essential hamper to handle corruption of using capital expenditure in local government. First, they have limited access to corrupt activities. Second, they experience some intervention to handle corruption. Thus, the study develops 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.