Chairman Lee Jae Oh of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC), who is visiting Indonesia to expand channels to restore rights and interests of people living overseas and increase cooperation among countries for anti-corruption and integrity policies, visited Corruption Eradication Commission (CEC) of Indonesia on February 2 and held the Korea–Indonesia Anti-Corruption Policy Consultation Meeting with his counterpart, acting Chairman Bibit Sanad Sianto.

Items that were discussed during the meeting include cooperative measures to suggest international cooperation for anti-corruption activities as agenda for G20 Summit meeting and increase exchanges between anti-corruption organizations of Indonesia and Korea and strengthen policy cooperation.

In an opening speech, Chairman Lee Jae Oh said "It is very significant for Asia including Korea and developing countries, too, that Korea holds the G20 Summit meeting in Seoul in this November," and suggested "we have to make joint efforts to include international cooperation for anti-corruption activities into agenda for G20 Summit meeting."

Chairman Lee explained "Recent G20 Summit meetings, in particular, the Joint Statement of the summit meeting in Pittsburgh, addressed anti-corruption matters in very detail; it demanded adopting the system to check implementation process of UN anti-corruption treaty, implementing OECD anti-bribery convention and strengthening transparency of international aide. This is because corruption that has negative influence beyond national boundaries is considered as one of main reasons of the current global financial crisis."

Chairman Lee emphasized "Support for developing countries is vital given the engine of the global economic growth is directly related with the development of developing countries, which should not be mere provision of goods and services; it should be based on expansion of institutional infrastructure." He added "Among others, measures to control and prevent corruption are necessary and accordingly, cooperative projects by the two countries to support anti-corruption technologies can enhance the integrity level and bring about positive riffle effects in the international community." As a result, he said that anti-corruption organizations should cooperate for strategic purposes so that G20 Summit meeting in Seoul could deal with issues related with "improvement of integrity" of individual countries and the international community through the support for anti-corruption technologies.

Chairman Lee also said "The ACRC of Korea has pushed ahead with projects for supporting technological cooperation since it signed the MOU with Indonesia in December of 2006 and they have been generating the most productive results among other projects so far. The commission will launch the cooperative projects in its second phase for three years this year and help Indonesia implement them effectively."

In the meantime, Indonesia and Korea signed "the Korea–Indonesia MOU on Cooperation on Anti-Corruption Activities." Korea has initiated Indonesia into various anti-corruption policies: evaluation of integrity (2007); evaluation of policies against corruption (2008); and evaluation of influence of corruption (2009). Indonesia has benchmarked Korea’s evaluation of integrity for central administration organizations and municipalities since 2008.

The ACRC will discuss with the counterpart in Indonesia about cooperative measures in detail through consultation meetings among working-level officials. The commission will also strengthen consulting activities to help programs take root in a stable manner and consider delivering additional anti-corruption programs including the code of conduct of public officials and the system to protect those who have reported corruptive activities.