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Transparency is a manifestation of good governance in a democratic government. Provision of accurate, clear, and relevant information is highly necessary for achieving an open government and gaining public trust. Today's society tends to have more transparent government, especially with many corruption cases and abuse of authority found in both central and regional lines. This paper will discuss the implementation of transparency in governance that still fails to prevent corruption in Indonesia. The data collection and analysis performed in the study used the literature review method. Several articles on transparency in government as well as supporting documents and case studies were also analyzed. At the moment, methods and measurement tools for transparency are becoming increasingly more sophisticated as they are supported by the advancement of knowledge and information technology, including social media. There are several transparency principles that have been intensively discussed, nonetheless, concurrently it is also argued that transparency has failed and has been ineffective. The number of corruption cases that occurred in several regions is an indication of transparency's failures. Transparency still fails to prevent corruption, which, among others, is caused by conflicts of interest, enforcement difficulty, attitudes and behavior of officials who still have no proper understanding of the importance of transparency, and the implementation of non-standardized information services.
Ngatikoh et al. (Wed,) studied this question.