Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has voiced doubts over a recent public opinion poll conducted by the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI), which alleges that public faith in the anticorruption body has declined.

The institute announced Sunday that the level of public trust in the KPK had dropped to 41.6 percent, down 17 percent from 58.3 percent in a similar survey conducted in October 2005. The survey had questioned 1,200 respondents in 33 provinces during the first week of June.

"Regardless of the result, I appreciate that the survey was [conducted]. However, it was carried out in coincidence with recent attacking statements about the KPK. Someone could have ordered the survey to be done for personal gain," KPK deputy chairman Mochammad Jasin said Monday.

Jasin added that his office had successfully investigated and prosecuted 44 former lawmakers from various parties as well as several former ministers, in addition to two active Democratic Party lawmakers.

"And none has been acquitted by the court, which means we have a 100 percent conviction rate," he said, adding that the KPK had worked professionally and independently. "We work based on facts, not because of requests from certain groups," he said.

Several high-ranking officials became implicated in a bribery case linked to the SEA Games when fugitive bribery suspect and former Democratic Party treasurer M. Nazaruddin alleged he had met with high-ranking KPK officials in an unofficial meeting.