3.2  Weakness of the Whistleblowing 
System in Indonesia 
3.2.1  Employee Perception (Reporter) 
Both company employees and civil servants in 
government agencies have a moral dilemma to 
become a whistleblower. The employee who decides 
to do a whistleblowing will be accused of being a 
traitor who divulges secrets, but can also be said as a 
hero (Sudimin, 2003). The agency where he works 
can see his actions as a sign of not thanking the 
agency that helped him and violated his loyalty. But 
on the other hand, his responsibility to the wider 
community also arose because he hid corporate 
crime. The dilemma experienced by employees is one 
of the causes of the whistleblowing system not 
running smoothly. 
In addition, even though there is already employee 
protection or witness protection that has even been 
included in organizational policy, employees are still 
reluctant to become a whistleblower for fear of facing 
many risks. The first risk that might arise is the 
disclosure of the whistleblower's identity. The second 
risk, and perhaps the hardest, is termination of 
employment. Or, even though the employment 
relationship is not broken, the relationship with the 
boss and coworkers becomes tenuous and the 
unpleasant situation in the workplace is unavoidable. 
Another risk is the risk of criminalization, where the 
employee can be prosecuted with defamation articles 
or unpleasant acts. This risk can deliver the employee 
to jail for a short time. 
3.2.2 Legal System 
The weakness of the WBS in Indonesia is also 
influenced by the legal system in Indonesia. Until 
now, there is no law that clearly regulates the 
whistleblowing system. Whistleblowing, especially 
those intended for government institutions, must be 
reported to the appropriate agencies. There is no 
special forum integrated between one institution and 
another. Thus, the protection provided for a 
whistleblower will be carried out by the institution 
that receives the report. 
3.2.3 Corporate Perspective 
Overall, the weakness of the WBS system in the 
company is located on the company's WBS channel. 
Many companies rely solely on e-mail or text 
messages that are not even heeded by the related 
team. According to the EY survey titled the Asia 
Pacific Fraud Survey 2017, only 37% of employees 
were confident that their reports would be followed 
up by the company's whistleblower team. 
Still from the results of the EY survey, as many as 
39% of employees were more comfortable using 
external complaints channels, such as government 
hotlines for reasons of security and anonymity. 
Furthermore, as many as 1 in 4 employees stated that 
they were aware of fraudulent acts within the 
company, but they chose to remain silent because 
they did not believe that the company would defend 
them if they complained about these matters. From 
the survey results it can be concluded that employee 
mistrust of the company is the main cause of the 
company's weak whistleblower system, especially in 
security guarantees. In addition, the weakness of the 
company's whistleblower system, especially those 
managed internally, is the risk of the person being 
reported as the person receiving the report. So, 
employees are more interested in blowing the whistle 
directly to the public or the government. 
3.2.4  Perspective of Government Agencies 
From the results of interviews conducted with the 
employees of the Directorate General of Taxes in the 
study of Ardityasari (2016), the WISE (Ministry of 
Finance's whistleblowing system) seemed to divide 
the team in the work environment. In addition, there 
is a need for a clear system when receiving 
complaints. One employee of the Directorate General 
of Fiscal Balance stated that his co-workers had never 
been questioned based on complaints from WISE. 
Even though the complaint turned out to be only an 
anonymous letter and a fictitious complaint. So, 
according to him, there needs to be a punishment for 
such persons, and an increase in the whistleblowing 
system selection system itself. 
In addition, the applications used in several 
government institutions are still internal, and not 
known at all by the community. In fact, the 
community also has the right to complain if they find 
irregularities or indications of fraud from these 
government institutions. 
Other weaknesses found i is the system overlap. 
For example, within the Ministry of Finance, the 
Directorate General of Taxes has its own 
whistleblowing system called the Tax Complaints 
Information System (SIPP) and so does the 
Directorate General of Customs and Excise with the 
Public Complaints Application System (SIPUMA). 
The overlapping of this system implies inefficiency, 
because the two directorates are still in the same 
ministry.