Indonesia Woos OECD with Anti-Foreign Bribery Rules

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Indonesia is currently drafting rules on foreign bribery as it tries to convince the OECD that it deserves a seat in the rich country club.

Jakarta. Indonesia is currently drafting rules on foreign bribery as it tries to convince the OECD that it deserves a seat in the rich country club.

Jakarta is aiming to join the OECD — short for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — by 2028, thinking that the group’s stringent standards can be a springboard for economic growth. The country is now pursuing some regulatory reforms to tick OECD’s boxes, including on its stance against foreign bribery.

Indonesia at the moment doesn’t have a specific rule on criminalizing bribery against foreign public officials in international transactions. Jakarta has yet to adopt the OECD Convention on such matters.

“Regulations on [banning] foreign bribery are a key requirement in our accession to the OECD. … There are suggestions that we should [include it] in the ongoing revisions to the Corruption Law,” Chief Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto recently told reporters.

Airlangga said that Indonesia had targeted to finish the regulatory homework on foreign bribery by 2027. He went on to say the anti-graft commission KPK had also given some input on what needed to be changed in the current Corruption Law.

The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention sets legally binding standards and focuses on the briber. A roadmap on Indonesia’s OECD accession shows that the group requires Jakarta to not only comply with the convention, but also be able to work with other countries to curb the crime. In 2025, Chief Legal Affairs Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra unveiled Jakarta’s intention to accede to the convention.

Indonesia has long been struggling to be corruption-free, with the public being no stranger to the sight of senior officials dressed in KPK’s orange detainee jackets. Indonesia’s national corruption perception index stood at 34 as of 2025, down three points from a year earlier, according to Transparency International.

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