Minister Nadiem Asks Campus Chancellor To Design Anti-Corruption Courses

Minister of Education and Culture Nadiem Makarim/screenshot

JAKARTA - Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Mendikbudristek) Nadiem Makarim asked the university chancellor to design anti-corruption courses for his students.

This was conveyed when he attended the launch of the Jaga KAMPUS application with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). With this anti-corruption application and course, it is hoped that rioting in the campus environment can be prevented and make students have more integrity.

"For the chancellors and university leaders, I hope that with the JAGA Kampus platform, mothers and fathers are increasingly motivated to create a campus environment full of integrity. One way is to design anti-corruption courses for our students," Nadiem said on YouTube. KPK RI, Wednesday, February 23.

Anti-corruption courses, continued Nadiem, can later make students a corruption-free generation. So that in the future there will be no more corrupt practices in the country.

"Hopefully, the younger generation of Indonesia will have a high awareness of the importance of integrity values in their lives today as students or in the future," said the former CEO of Gojek Indonesia.

"I believe that our efforts to build a corruption-free Indonesia start with a clean, transparent and accountable campus," added Nadiem. Previously, the KPK and the Ministry of Education and Culture launched the JAGA Campus application. This launch is intended to close the gap in corruption in the university environment.

Deputy Chairperson of the KPK, Nurul Ghufron, said that this application will later become a platform that can be accessed by anyone, including students and their parents, to oversee several things, such as the procurement of goods and services.

"JAGA Campus is a platform that is expected to be an access for the community, both students as users of higher education institutions, maybe their parents, and it does not even rule out people who may be parties related to the campus," said Ghufron in the launch of the JAGA Kampus application which was held online. on the KPK RI YouTube, Wednesday, February 23.

With this application, Ghufron hopes that campus governance will be maintained and the potential for corruption can be closed before it occurs. So that later college graduates will be dedicated and have integrity.

"Hopefully JAGA Campus will provide higher education that does not only have integrity in education, research and service, but also with governance so that governance is maintained so as to ensure that there is no potential for harm to the state or potential for criminal acts of corruption," he said.

"That is what is expected from this launch, to build so that the higher education system does not only include or integrate integrity in students but starts from governance to financial management, asset management, and education governance, research, as well as anti-corruption services," Ghufron added.

This application has been integrated with BAN-PT DIKTI so that it can display various data such as campus profiles, to budgets such as university income and expenses, especially Legal Entity State Universities (PTNBH).