PADANG, West Sumatra — Transparency International publishes the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) every year. Based on 13 different expert and business surveys, the CPI measures and ranks public sector corruption in 180 nations.
The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below 5 — on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results indicate a serious corruption problem. Among ASEAN nations, only two scored above five points — Singapore at 9.3 (ranked No. 1 along with Denmark and New Zealand) and Brunei Darussalam at 5.5 (38).
The rankings of the other ASEAN countries are as follows: Malaysia 4.4 (56), Thailand 3.5 (78), Indonesia 2.8 (110), Vietnam 2.7 (116), Timor Leste 2.5 (127),the Philippines 2.4 (134), Cambodia and Laos 2.1 (154), and Myanmar 1.4 (176), second to last before Somalia at 1.1.