Why Corruption?

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201219.068How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Corruption, Bureaucracy, Bribery

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out and to describe why corruption continues to occur in Semarang Government although there have been many regulations or commissions made as an effort to eradicate corruption. A qualitative descriptive method was applied in this study to describe the phenomenon of why corruption occurs. The data were collected by in-depth interviews. The finding has shown that the corruption behavior occurs in form of bribery in the level of the civil servant executive ranks, including the mayor and legislative elements as the efforts to “speed up” the approval from the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget Plan. The occurrence of bribery behavior cannot be separated from the internal conditions in the organization or the bureaucracy, and it is also related to the individual, group and organizational structure dimensions. Bribery is considered a common practice as the official consequence due to the existence of a “transaction model” and there is a perception that bribery is not corruption because it does not harm the State, but is considered a bureaucratic failure.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dyah Lituhayu
AU  - Sri Suwitri
AU  - Y Warella
AU  - Ida Hayu D.M
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/21
TI  - Why Corruption?
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICOSAPS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 451
EP  - 455
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201219.068
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201219.068
ID  - Lituhayu2020
ER  -