PENDIDIKAN ANTIKORUPSI SEBAGAI PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DI SEKOLAH

Abstract

Various efforts to fight corruption in Indonesia, including the formation of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in 2002 who has reveal many corruption cases, has not help in improving Indonesia’s ranking in Transparency International; number 100 from 183 countries in the world in 2011. Another way to fight corruption is by implementing the anti-corruption education formally in schools, which has several advantages such as the low budget needed and the continuity and systematization of the program. The anti-corruption education is in fact part of the curriculum of Civic Education study (PKn). However, the implementation has not met the expected outcome, particularly in developing students’ anti-corruption attitudes and characters. The lessons are limited to the delivery of verbal information, without giving the students chance to develop knowledge and logical reasoning on the immoral dimension of corruption. This article explains that formal anti-corruption education is an important education policy that can no longer be postponed. It is an investment to prevent corruption in the long term. The essential characteristic of anti-corruption education is the synergy between the utilization of information and knowledge with the ability to make moral consideration, in order to develop students’ cognition, affection, and conation fully and continuously.

Key words: anti-corruption education, civic education, corruption in Indonesia