Domestication of KPK and Efforts to Improve KPK Integrity and Capacity in Corruption Eradication

Amidst the decline in Indonesia’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) with a score of 34 compared to the previous year, with a score of 38. The public has intensively criticized the existence of the KPK, namely whether the KPK institution is still needed, because the KPK is considered to have failed to carry out the mandate of eradicating corruption. Instead of eradicating corruption in this country, it turns out that the KPK has also corrupted itself. The inactive KPK chairman, Firli Bahuri, was named a suspect in a case of alleged extortion and gratification by Polda Metro Jaya. This was also the case with the imposition of ethical sanctions on 90 KPK employees who were proven to have extorted or received gratuities from residents of the KPK detention center. Moreover, the KPK, which was originally an independent organization, has now become an executive branch institution as regulated by Law No. 30/2022. Departing from the above phenomenon, the collapse of the integrity of KPK commissioners and officials along with the domestication of the KPK through the revision of the KPK Law, whether this happened naturally or intentionally (by design). This paper aims to answer that question.