Depok-“A culture of corruption can arise if a person does not have integrity within himself,” said Aminudin, Director of Anti-Corruption Business Entities of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), at the seminar “Implementation of Building Integrity in the Campus Environment”, at the Vocational Education Program, Universitas Indonesia (UI), moderated by Dewi Kartika Sari, S.E., M.S.Ak., CA., UI Vocational lecturer and Lever 5 Coordinator (Integrity Zone Supervision Strengthening Area).
The seminar which was held last Tuesday (13/06) was one of the efforts to build an Integrity Zone (ZI) towards a Corruption Free Area (WBK) and a Clean Serving Bureaucracy Area (WBBM) in the campus environment.
(Photo: Aminudin, Director of Anti-Corruption Business Entities of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), giving a presentation on preventing corruption and gratification in the campus environment)
According to Aminudin, corruption can be categorized into several types, one of which is in the form of bribery. “Based on KPK data, from 2004 to March 2023, the three highest corruption cases in Indonesia were bribery, procurement of goods and services, and budget misuse,” he said.
As an example, he said, acts of bribery that can occur on campus are gratuities. Gratification is an action taken by someone in the form of giving money, goods or other facilities to officials or public servants in order to speed up the service process.
“The culture of gratification needs to be eradicated, both from students to lecturers or education staff, and vice versa,” said Amin. He hopes that all UI Vocational academics can avoid this culture.
“If you see any acts of corruption or abuse of authority on campus, please report it via whistle blowing system that available,” said Aminudin. In a separate place, Amelita Lusia, M.Si., Head of the Bureau of Public Relations and Public Information Disclosure (KIP), said that reports of suspected corruption or abuse of authority could be reported through the existing mechanism through the UI Public Relations Bureau and KIP.
Furthermore, Aminudin explained that regional development with integrity at the higher education level could be carried out by lecturers, educational staff, and students. In addition, integrity actions in the form of an active role in the anti-corruption movement through the Higher Education Tridharma can be implemented through supervision, studies, advocacy, counseling, campaigns, and others. In addition, by including compulsory courses on anti-corruption. The goal is to be implemented in order to produce ethical students.
ZI is a title given to government agencies whose leaders and staff are committed to realizing WBK/WBBM through bureaucratic reform, especially in terms of preventing corruption and improving the quality of public services. To achieve this, UI Vocational continues to improve through six areas of change, namely change management, governance, human resource management, accountability, oversight, and public services. The focus of bureaucratic reform includes preventing corruption, improving the quality of public services and facilitating service to stakeholders, including lecturers, students, education staff, alumni and other related parties.
(Photo: UI Vocational Education Program Director, Padang Wicaksono, S.E., Ph.D, giving a speech at the seminar)
Padang Wicaksono, S.E., Ph.D, Director of the UI Vocational Education Program, said that currently UI Vocational actively participates in building an Integrity Zone in a higher education environment. “As one of the providers of higher education in Indonesia, UI Vocational strives for the campus environment to be an area that is free from gratification and corruption, and has a clean and integrity bureaucracy.”
