ReBorn

Fighting Against Corruption with Cultural Reformation

Ahmad Zamakhsyari Sidiq
Informatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung
ahmad.zamakhsyari@gmail.com
+62-8170242322

Indonesia is one of the countries in the world where corruption is widespread and has become a significant contributor to the fragility of the country’s economy. In 2007, Indonesia ranked 143rd and improved to ranks 126th in 2008 in the 2008 perception of corruption index according to Transparency International.
The government shows the willingness to fight against Corruption by established a state Commission to Combat Corruption (KPK) based on a national legislation. After the establishment of KPK, Anti-corruption prosecutions are having some effect. But Indonesia is still far from “corruption-free-state”, because the real problem is Indonesian people’s way of thinking. Indonesian people have lived in corrupted system since the VOC is still on the charge. Corruption is very common so people would think something like bribery as everyday things.
We have to stop the spreading of this “Culture” called corruption to the next generation. In order to stop this from spreading and becoming “culture” in the youth, we should do some cultural reformation. What kind of cultural reformation? As simple as the famous quote from Aa Gym: “Start from ourselves, Start from the simple things, Start now”.
Start from eliminating the simple kind of corruption like cheating on the exam, cut the lines, cut the traffic light, or bribing for driving license. Start from ourselves, trying to live by the rules and obey them and start from now.
This message has one vital point. That is Self-Integrity. Indonesian people now lack of self-integrity. It shows on how law and policy can be easily ignored with some rupiahs.
These acts is also aimed to bring back the social awareness about law enforcement because the problem wasn’t only the system, but mostly on the people run the system.

Keyword: self-integrity, corruption, cultural reformation, Indonesia, youth