Preventing the Acts of Corruption through Legal Community Education

The efforts to criminalize corruption committed by the Indonesian Police, Attorney and Criminal Commission of Corruption institutions have been intensified, but state officials, especially regional heads, such as Governor/Vice Governor, Regent/Deputy Regent, Mayor/Deputy Mayor, Members of People's Representative Councils and other state officials are also not deterred by the actions of law enforcement officers. This condition has led to a gap between the prosecution and prevention with acts of corruption that occurred, that the impacts of criminal acts and the prevention of corruption are not directly proportional to the data of criminal acts of corruption that occurred. Supposedly, the more action and prevention activities undertaken, the criminal acts of corruption will decrease. However, empirically, the situation in the field is the opposite. To combat this increasingly massive corruption, it is necessary to make more efforts to create an anti-corruption society. The strategic step that must be done by the government is to make intensive prevention efforts, through legal community education in realizing anti-corruption culture in Indonesia. Intensive prevention is done by establishing commission on prevention of corruption, which carries a special task of preventing corruption. The problems that have been hypothesized in this study have been tested by the researchers and resulted in a conclusion that officials given knowledge about the prevention of corruption acts tend not to do corruption, compared to those who do not follow socialization or get the knowledge. There is a positive influence of socialization activities conducted on the decrease of corruption.