Preventive Measures As Strategic Attempts to Cope with Criminal Acts of Corruption in Indonesia

Corruption becomes a latent danger in almost all countries, including Indonesia. Therefore, any strategies to tackle it are always conducted. In some countries, imposing a serious punishment is the strategy chosen with the goal of giving deterrent effects to the perpetrator. In some countries, preventive measures are preferred to overcome corruption. It is intended to eliminate the root cause of corruption. This present article proposes the idea of preventive measures as a strategy to cope with corruption in Indonesia. Two main problems will be examined in this article: The first is why preventive measures become a strategy chosen to tackle criminal acts of corruption in Indonesia. The second is how theories justify the preventive measures to cope with criminal acts of corruption. Through a doctrinal approach, this study produced the following conclusions. First, preventive measures are the most strategic causative effort to cope with criminal acts of corruption in Indonesia. Second, preventive measures are justified by various theories in criminal law. Keywords: preventive measure, strategy, coping with criminal act, corruption in Indonesia, criminal la