Indonesia's Once-Powerful Graft Watchdog Losing Favor

Public trust drops sharply as KPK flounders

Amendments pushed through the Indonesian Legislature last September have crippled Indonesia’s once-most-potent anti-corruption agency so badly that it has begun to lose public sympathy, now ranking behind the army, President Joko Widodo and religious organizations such as Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama in public satisfaction.

Widodo, known as Jokowi, i…