An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a former speaker of parliament to 15 years in jail for his role in causing state losses of around US$170 million linked to a national electronic identity card scheme. Setya Novanto was speaker from 2014-15 and again from 2016-17. Novanto was accused of orchestrating a scheme to steal US$173 million, or almost 40 per cent of the entire budget for a government contract to produce the national identity card. Even with successes in the fight against corruption, Indonesians must contend with high levels of graft in many areas of their lives and the country placed 96th among 180 countries in Transparency International’s annual corruption perceptions index last year.