With the theme Fight against Poverty and Corruption, Student Executive Board of Faculty of Economics and Business (BEM FEB) UGM held a variety of activities to participate in the prevention of corruption practices in Indonesia. One of the activities is the Workshop Corruption-Free Economy by discussing the major theme Corruption-Free Economy, Prosperous Indonesia: Revisiting Institutional Corruption in Perspective of Economics and Business towards Prosperous Indonesia.
The Workshop which took place on Saturday (16/10) in the Auditorium of MM UGM presented keynote speakers, including Prof. Dr. H. Amien Rais, who discussed Corruption Hegemony that Affects the Nation, the head of KPK (Anti-Corruption Commission) Bibit Samad Riyanto who presented problems of Data and Facts of Corruption which Undermine the Nation, and President Director of Pertamina, Ir. Galaila Karen Agustiawan who discussed The Impact of Corruption in State Owned Enterprises Operations.
In addition, economic observer, Rimawan Pradiptyo, Ph.D., also contributed his thought Reveals the Dark Corruption Affecting State Owned Enterprises, former Head of Fiscal Policy in the Ministry of Finance and lecturer of UGM, Anggito Abimanyu, Ph.D., explaining the Enforcement of the Reforms as an Effort to Form Anti-corruption Bureaucratic Character. The workshop also presented research results of UGM Center for Anti-corruption Studies (PUKAT) entitled The Role of Ethics and Transparency in Creating Anti-Corruption Agency. Meanwhile, Hanta Yuda AR, S.I.P, a researcher from the Indonesian Institute, presented his paper entitled The Ideal Nation Without Corruption and Creating an Anti-Corruption Generation.
Discussing Modeling the Three Pillars of Combating Money Laundering and Corruption in Indonesia, Rimawan Pradiptyo saw that Indonesia’s Anti-Corruption Law has several weaknesses that must be scrutinized. The current law currently covers only criminal acts of corruption in the public sector and do not cover acts of corruption in the private sector. In addition, the Anti-Corruption Law does not regulate the post-corruption activity (money laundering) that is actually difficult to be separated from the corruption itself. "This law does not reach a wider scope, for instance money politics, elections of members of the House of Representatives, presidential election, legislative elections, Bribery Law and the Banking Law," he said.
Another weaknesses, he said, that the law pays little attention to the rationality of perpetrators/possible perpetrators of corruption. The inclusion of the maximum penalty would instead stimulate players/possible players to calculate the level of corruption that can generate profits. The inclusion of maximum penalties in the law makes the deterrent effects weaken over time as inflation in Indonesia is very high. "The higher the inflation, the lower the deterrent effect of fines. This makes the need for amendments to this Act more urgent," he explained.