Is the Outcome of 2017 Election Can Eliminate Politic Corruption?

2017 Election has been assigned on democratic management and should be based on integrity, because we do not want the outcome of the elections in 2017 only resulted the new corruptors, due to the fact previously demonstrated many winners of the elections were not longtime involved in corruption cases, because the election system that is expensive and the culture of corruption then elected or become the winner of the elections is not necessarily good candidate, because they can be like a wolf in the sheep's clothing.

We must remember that the anti-corruption Institution Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has recently stated that the trend of fighting corruption over the past three years in Indonesia has increased. In 2013 the number of suspected cases of corruption totaling 1271 people, an increase from the previous year that only 401 persons and 436 in 2011. Of all the suspects that corruption increased significantly said ICW is the areas leader.

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs since the local elections imposed in 2005 to January 2014, there are 317 of the 524 local leaders' corruption. The effects of local leaders corruption, has also hit the bureaucracy in the area where the exposed areas of the head when the issue of corruption, bureaucracy at the lower level areas such as secretaries, heads of departments and treasurer also affected. Data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed that nearly 2,000 civil servants caught in a corruption case.

The effect, according to him, also to the members of the Regional Representatives Council (DPRD). He said that since direct elections there were 3,000 more legislators in provinces and regencies or cities affected by corruption.

Election Outcome is associated with capability to produce leaders with good leadership or not will depend on several factors, among others: the culture of corruption; business politics and the election system.

Local elections directly correlated positively or strongly associated with the occurrence of corruption cases in the area. Local leaders' high costs are one of the causes. Expenses budget through corrupt mechanisms of financial management; it is causing the emergence of new cases affected area heads the legal process.
Direct elections require voters who already have a good education, a good economy and actors who already have good political awareness as well as the electoral organizer of professional, independent and not partisan and owned that was not enough this time.

However, there also were refused on the grounds eliminate direct local leader elections is largely irrelevant because that should be addressed is the implementation of the election, in which the authority of the General Election Commission (KPU) and the Election Supervisory Body plus that could be decisive.

Fighting political corruption

We've entered the regime of anti-money politics, candidates must be clean and have previously been reported treasures including the sources of wealth and how to get along Wealth Report State Officials (LHKPN) regulated in Law Number 28 of 1999 on State Organizer Yang Clean and Free of Corruption, Collusion and Nepotism, Law Number 30 Year 2002 on Eradication Commission Korupsidan an offense, the Corruption Eradication Commission Decision No. KEP. 07/KPK/02/2005 regarding Registration Procedures, Inspection and Announcements Wealth Report State.

According to the KITRA monitoring results, during this reporting wealth report formality only and need to know where the source of the wealth they have and to date no one monitoring the progress of wealth during his tenure there was an increase of suspicious or problems and financial contributions for the campaign should rail from anywhere and I hope the wealth report state officials do not just a formality only.

Although among others rate, the real wealth report of our public officials are better than ever and assets acquired is worth not by civilian personnel positions and the announcement of the wealth of public access should be opened.

Jakarta Election, including elections in other areas are in need of supervision to all candidates and keep in mind that all local leaders candidates talking about the welfare of the people and is linked to the management of the budget and encourage people to intelligently pick the candidate, the accountability system the need for civic participate in planning in determining the budget in order to decide chain of elite involvement - the political elite are not responsible for eroding the budget for the public welfare of how the management of the budget.

Corruption elections produce new corruptions of their time served of corruption affects political parties because they want the turnover and dynastic capital positions also affects corruption.

Our challenge budgetary problems of money that was given from the center of the stricken area has a huge need for supervision so that big money is not wrong to use and the need to find a leader in the general election of quality is the election that emphasizes sportsmanship, neutrality, transparency, honest and fair, both on election organizers and competition between each candidate contesting in the five-year celebration of democracy.

It is of course to stimulate the active participation of the constituents in order to choose the best candidate for the sake of progress in many aspects of life that are directly related to the interests of constituents, submission of wealth is to test the integrity of each candidate, the position of regional head can become champions and destruction due to be dealing with the bureaucracy that had long there needs to be a matter of commitment from each local leader.

*) The author is a researcher at the Center of Risk Assessment and Strategic Inteliggence (Cersia), Jakarta.