The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is currently preparing anti-corruption schoolbooks to be distributed to kindergarten, elementary and secondary students as part of a nation-wide anti-corruption drive.
"The books will be launched on Sept. 22. We've asked the National Education Ministry to help publicize the event," KPK's deputy director for corruption prevention Eko S. Tjiptadi told a media gathering in Bandung on Monday.
He said the book, which would be attuned according to each education level, would serve as an educative supplement to be integrated into the current curriculum alongside conventional subjects as civic education, religious studies and mathematics.
"For the kindergarten level, we emphasize on using children stories, fables, and even child games, such as puzzles and the snake and ladder board game, in teaching anti corruption
values," he told The Jakarta Post Monday evening.
Anti corruption education material for elementary school level and above would be more advance, he said.
"It is our hope that students can do a research on how public services are being carried out in their neighborhood and to discuss it in classes."
Anwar said, all education materials in the anti corruption books would be available online for free through the commission's website, www.kpk.go.id.
Tjiptadi added more efforts were needed in combating corruption.
"We've so far only focused our attention on officials caught for graft, when education and the cultivation of an anti-corruption culture is part and parcel of corruption erradication."
KPK had been cooperating with over 70 tertiary institutions across the country in campaigning against corruption and conducting related studies, Tjiptadi said, adding that Indonesia was the world's fifth more corrupted country. (amr/and)
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