PERANAN KOMISI PEMBERANTASAN KORUPSI DALAM UPAYA PENGENDALIAN TERHADAP TINDAK PIDANA KORUPSI DI INDONESIA

Corruption is one of big problems in many countries, especially in Indonesia due to the terrible effects it resulted. The impacts of corruption destroy the principles of national quality, hamper the development and inflict the nation’s financial loss. Therefore, the government had continuously increased the effort, which began by issuing the legislation regulation to the establishing of special commission to remove corruption, called Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). It was arranged in the Acts No. 30 of 2002 on the Commission of Corruption Remove that was based on the Act No. 31 Jo the Act No 20 of 2001 on the Corruption Remove. This paper concerned to the roles of KPK in controlling/removing corruption, the problems it faced and the effort to handle the problems. While the objectives of this study was to collect data about the roles of KPK, the problems it faced and the effort to cope with them. This study used normative method that was studying literature construct both individual and general secondary data. The result showed that the roles of KPK were coordinating the research, investigation and suit of criminal act of corruption, collecting information and holding hearing with other institutions concerning to the corruption remove. The problems faced were the clash in the task and function interpretation with other institution such as the police department and attorney, the lack of funds, disproportional human resources that they are not corrupt in performing their jobs and authorities. It also needs be proved independent institution in implementing and taking preventive and firm actions against the corruptions