Indonesia's former parliament speaker was handed a 15-year prison term on Tuesday in one of the country's harshest sentences for graft, marking a victory for its clamp-down on widespread corruption.

Prosecutors had demanded a 16-year sentence.

Judge Yanto, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, also fined Novanto 500 million rupiah ($36,000), far less than the $7.4 million prosecutors had wanted him to pay as restitution to the state.

Indonesia ranked 96th out of 180 countries on Transparency International's corruption index last year, while it scored a lowly 37 on a scale of perceived public corruption with 100 seen as "very clean" and zero "highly corrupt".

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