THE GOVERNMENT LEGAL POLICY IN THE ERA OF REFORMATION IN COMBATING CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA

The issues addressed in this paper are 'How is the Legal Policy of the Government in the era of Reformation in Combating Corruption in Indonesia'. Corruption eradication movement was sporadically and extensively driven by students who continuously perform demonstrations since the beginning of the 1998 reformation movement. Effort to reform laws that have been taken by the government in the eradication of corruption, especially in the aspect of legal substances which have been stipulated in the Law Number 31 Year 1999 on the Eradication of Corruption and Law Number 20 of 2001 on the Amendment of Act Number 31 of 1999 on the Eradication of corruption. In addition, the government has ratified the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the United Nations Convention against Corruption. While in terms of institutional aspects of the law, it was established in the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and Anticorruption Court. Corruption has been defined as "extraordinary crime", therefore the countermeasures must be conducted in the extraordinary ways. In the era of reformation, the anti-corruption efforts have been one of the priorities in the agenda of development activities continuously optimized by the government since the administrations of President BJ Habibie (1998-1999), President Abdurrahman Wahid (1999-2001), President Megawati Sukarnoputri (2001-2004), President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004-2014) and now President Joko Widodo (2014-2019).