A Juridical Analysis Of State Officials Salary Increases In The Perspective Of Criminal Law And Anti Corruption Measures
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https://doi.org/10.47701/ijlle.v7i1.6071Keywords:
Corruption, Criminal Law, Salary Policy, State Officials, Legal PreventionAbstract
As an extraordinary crime, corruption endangers the stability of legal order, diminishes the integrity of state officials, and weakens public trust in government.One preventive approach is salary increases. This approach is assumed to suppress the potential for corruption by providing remuneration for abuse of authority. However, the effectiveness of this policy needs to be critically examined through a juridical approach. The problem formulation in this study is the positive legal regulations related to the salary increase policy for state officials in the Indonesian legal system and the relevance of the salary increase policy from a criminal law perspective as an instrument for preventing corruption. A normative juridical methodology is used in this study, with emphasis on statutory and conceptual approaches. The legal sources consist of primary legal materials, such as Law Number 20 of 2023 concerning the State Civil Apparatus and Law Number 31 of 1999, in conjunction with Law Number 20 of 2001, addressing the Eradication of Corruption, and secondary legal materials in the form of legal literature, journals, and scholarly opinions. The study is designed to analyze, from a normative perspective, the legal underpinnings and practical effectiveness of salary increase policies in preventing corruption according to criminal law principles. The research results show that the policy of increasing civil servant salaries has strong legal legitimacy and can be part of a corruption prevention strategy. However, this policy must be accompanied by bureaucratic reform, strengthening the oversight system, and consistent law enforcement to achieve its preventive objectives
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