Cartel and Political Corruption: Insight from Beef Imports Collusion in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.200301.012How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- import policy, quota, bribery, rent-seeking
- Abstract
Cartel is a group of several companies collude and give the appearance of competitive rivalry while in fact they have reached an understanding to jointly maximise profits. These companies involved in a conspiracy in anti trust activities. In industry and trade many cartel groups because their goals and action are categorized illegal in a country, especially in terms of price fixing. The purpose of this study is to reveal that cartel is not only a collusion among cartel companies, but also included outsider involvement in collusion. In sector case study of beef imports, the authors find that collusion in Indonesia through secret agreements, lobbying government through politician for private and collective benefits. This study is using qualitative–case study approach. Data is collecting by using literature study relating to the existence of cartel and articles that deals with the issue of cartel on beef imports throughout 2012 to 2018. The results of the study shows that inappropriate import policy is one of the causes of cartels and criminal act of corruption in cartel involving bureaucrat and politician privately or collectively.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Tonny Timbul Tampubolon AU - Gabriel Lele AU - Wahyudi Kumorotomo AU - Suripto PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/04 TI - Cartel and Political Corruption: Insight from Beef Imports Collusion in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Indonesian Association for Public Administration (IAPA 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 224 EP - 240 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200301.012 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200301.012 ID - Tampubolon2020 ER -