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The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has released the 2023 Education Integrity Assessment Survey (SPI), revealing corrupt practices in Indonesia’s school admission processes. The survey, based on input from students, educators, teachers, and educational institutions, found that 24.6% of teachers admitted some students were accepted after offering “gifts” to the school. Additionally, 42.4% reported that unqualified students were still admitted due to parental bribes. This report highlights the urgent need to address deeply rooted corruption within schools and families, calling for stronger principles to combat unethical practices.

A recent survey by Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission revealed corrupt practices in student admissions. The survey found that a significant number of teachers reported that students gained admission through bribes. This highlights a broader issue where corrupt behavior, such as accepting gifts for special treatment, is present in educational institutions.

The Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) has arrested the Rector of the University of Lampung for allegedly receiving IDR5 billion (US$336,000) in bribes from the families of students who failed the university entrance exams known as the autonomous admissions scheme. According to KPK, the ‘autonomous channel’ exam conducted by universities is vulnerable to bribery due to a lack of transparency and specific guidelines from the Ministry of Education, leaving state universities unsupervised.

Indonesia's top institution made headlines this month when 52 of its prospective students were caught cheating during an entrance test for the international programme of the medical faculty. It is the first time that cheating involving large numbers of students has been detected.

A scandal involving 49 students who sought places in an Egypt's prestigious university has been revealed. Instead of enrolling in the promised university, the students ended up in Malaysia where 15 were discovered doing odd jobs to support themselves. Moreover in what may be a bureaucratic cross-proposes the Indonesia's Ministry of national education is not in charge of verifying the student's process because is the Ministry of religious affaires the one responsible for students who apply to Islamic Universities abroad.

The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia proposed a bill to further deregulate the Nation's universities. But the privatization of leading universities will lead, according to the Indonesia Corruption Watch, to the exclusion of the children from less well-off families. The high costs of university entrance and passage in the way have indeed tended to either reduce or eliminate students from the poorer provinces of Indonesia. Major corruption cases break out in Indonesia on a regular basis and there is strong evidence that higher university tuition fees increased corruption in the sector.