What are the triggering factors of corruption in construction industry in Indonesia?

The construction industry becomes a most prone area to corruption practices due to a huge amount of budgeting aspects for infrastructure development. What are the main factors which can influence the rapid increase of corruption activities in construction service providers? This research will discuss the roots of corrupt practices in the construction industry in Indonesia and what may become future scenarios that can be implemented to tackle this misleading behavior in construction projects. The research employs a questionnaire survey from staff and managers of construction projects who have the responsibility to the construction progress directly to identify the factors and collect possible actions to prevent the corrupt practices. The results reveal that culture and easy-manipulated work becomes the most stand-out triggering factors in Indonesia’s construction industry. Various prospected actions are declared in this research which are on the same track with international views. The results demonstrate that the main voters deal that most common issue of triggering factor in Indonesia is an issue which a construction project is easy to be manipulated in terms of budgeting, detailing, design drawing, and procurement procedures. Other notable factor is corruption becomes a culture which is difficult to erase permanently in Indonesia. The mentioned factors in the research can be a basis for recommendation to legislate law to tackle corrupt practices in the industry.