Transparency International ranked Indonesia 1181h in its Corruption Perception Index in 201 2,
an improvement over 143rd in 2007. While Suharto 's successors tried to fight against,
corruption, many analysts pointed out that corruption had simply been decentralized in the
post-Suharto era:28
, In.fact, while corruption was pervasive and blatant under Suharto, it was
well managed ." The arrival of democracy may have decreased the overall level .of corruption
but it increased uncertainty for foreign investors.