Examining Challenges of the Prosecutor Officials Combating Corruption of Capital Expenditures in Indonesia’s Local Governments

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.