Eradicating public official corruption Indonesia: a revolutionary paradigm focusing on state financial losses

M Zaid; Rabani M Halawa; Kartika Asmanda Putri; Fadhel Arjuna Adinda; Lamberton  Cait

doi:10.33061/wh.v29i2.9564

Authors

M Zaid Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Rabani M Halawa Attorney of the Indonesian Republic, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kartika Asmanda Putri Faculty of Law, Universitas Slamet Riyadi, Surakarta, Indonesia
Fadhel Arjuna Adinda Faculty of Law, Universitas Pajajaran, Bandung, Indonesia
Lamberton Cait University of Pennsylvania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33061/wh.v29i2.9564

Keywords:

Corruption; Abuse of Authority; Government Officials

Abstract

This research explores additional ways to eliminate corruption caused by authority abuse that hurts public finances. The present paradigm of corruption eradication in Indonesia still focuses on punishment, disregarding one of the Anti-Corruption Law's goals, state financial loss restitution. This research is normative, statutory, conceptual, and case-based. The results show that the administrative law approach to eradicating criminal acts of corruption due to government official abuse of authority focuses more on returning state losses through initial supervision by internal government agencies, such as the Government Internal Supervisory Apparatus. APIP has direct prosecution and compensation powers. The Supervisory Agency (BPK) finds state financial losses, it is better to take administrative action to recover them by communicating with APIP for time efficiency in eradicating corruption and recovering state losses. Third, sanctions in the authority that results in state financial losses are contained in Article 20 Juncto 21 of Law Number 30 of 2014 concerning governance, which only provides administrative sanctions of dismissal and does not require government officials to return state financial losses.

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