Public awareness of public administration governance and legal awareness regarding anti-corruption measures

Abstract

This study focuses on the extent of the influence of the level of legal awareness in society of the corruption problem, because of the importance of finding the cause of corruption persistence in Riau, Indonesia. By mapping the knowledge and understanding of the community, this research can identify what preventive steps need to be taken by local and central governments as well as law enforcement officials to prevent corruption (Marzuki et al., 2022; Arifin et al., 2015). This is an applied research, where the sample data are taken from three districts in Riau Province, Indonesia. Hopefully, in the future, the government and law enforcement will be able to identify concrete steps so that they can suppress the occurrence of corruption in Riau Province. The results of the study conclude that the people of Riau are quite tolerant of understanding corruption because of differences in views about disgraceful values in society if it has anything to do with non-corruption. The model of eradicating corruption in the community must be improved by increasing public understanding of corruption and improving the administrative system of the regional and central governments