Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Corruption Prevention and Detection Methods in the Public Sector

Abstract

This study examines and analyses on perception differences between the official and staff at the local government in the city and regency of Semarang about the methods effectiveness for preventing and detecting corruption. The instrument is questionnaires which were distributed to 150 samples that consist of 76 officials and 74 staffs. The data are typically ordinal that were measured by Likert scale and analyed using independent sample t test tehnique. The research result shows: (1) there is significant difference between officials and staffs on the methods effectiveness for preventing corruption; (2) there is significant difference between officials and staffs on the methods effectiveness for detecting corruption. Based on the research conclusions, it could recommended some advices are as follows: (1) to the local government in the city and regency of Semarang: performing vunerability and risk analysis on fraud and corruption; (2) to the inspectorate institution: performing education and training for the auditors, and performing retrospective and prospective forensic data analysis.