Warning From KPK: Give Gifts To Lecturers Entering Corruption Behavior

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JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Alexander Marwata said the practice of giving gifts from students to lecturers is the same as the practice of corruption.

Initially, Alexander asked questions related to whether or not a lecturer could accept gifts from students. He said this when he attended the Anti-Corruption Education Public Lecture at the Islamic Education Foundation University (Yapis) Papua, Monday, November 22.

"May I not (lecturers receive gifts from students, ed)?" asked Alexander in the event quoted from his written statement, Tuesday, November 23.

He explained that the practice actually entered into corrupt behavior. The reason is that lecturers who receive goods from their students usually tend to be unfair to other groups of students.

"Unfair behavior is part of corrupt behavior," said Alexander.

Furthermore, in the public lecture, he also explained a number of main tasks and functions of the KPK in an effort to eradicate corruption. There are three approaches taken by the anti-corruption commission, namely starting from education, prevention, and prosecution.

An education-based approach, continued Alexander, is carried out by implementing an anti-corruption attitude so that children can become a generation of integrity who always holds the value of honesty to hard work.

For this reason, he then reminded the students and the academic community of Yapis Papua University to always maintain integrity. According to him, integrity values such as honesty and hard work must be instilled in students from an early age.

In addition, Alexander also assessed that there are things that need to be improved in the education system. Character building, he continued, must be done early and then equipped with academic abilities.

Moreover, citing survey data conducted by the KPK in 2013 in a study on preventing family-based corruption, the results are quite surprising. The reason is that less than 10 percent of families where fathers and mothers jointly apply the value of honesty to be internalized in the family.

"Parents are more worried about their children getting red math scores or not being able to read in first grade than the character of children who don't want to queue," he concluded.