The Role of Teachers in Raising Anti Corruption Moral Awareness

Abstract

Anti-corruption education is a conscious effort to understand and prevent acts of corruption from formal education in schools, informal education in the family environment, and non-formal education in the community. The forms of criminal acts of corruption are identified in the Attachment to Law Number 20 2001 concerning the Eradication of Corruption Crimes. This research aims to determine the importance of the role of teachers, anti- corruption values, and the behavior that teachers demonstrate in fostering anti-corruption moral awareness. Indonesia is a corruption emergency country, preventive measures are needed to prevent the growth of the seeds of corrupt acts in the future. This type of research is qualitative with a literature study research method. Data collection techniques were carried out by studying literature from various sources such as books, journals and others. The subjects of this research were children. The object of this research was the role of teachers in fostering anti-corruption moral awareness. From the research results, it is known that teachers play a very important role in instilling 9 anti-corruption values in children. The 9 values are honesty, caring, independence, discipline, responsibility, hard work, simplicity, courage and fairness. The teacher's role is very important for students to provide an understanding of what Corruption is and also plays a role in instilling the values of honesty in students, so that students can carry out honest actions and not commit lies or acts of Corruption. This research aims to provide students with an understanding that corruption is a dishonorable act and to find out how to implement anti-corruption moral education.