dc.description.abstract | Since the reformation and democratization movement in 1998, Indonesians have
faced a chronic corruption problem. At the beginning of reformation era in
1998 to fight against corruption, the Indonesian government reforms the organization
structure of the Indonesia Police to be an independent body separated
from the Military organization. The police reforms begun in 1999 and got legal
foundation with Act No. 2/2002. However, since fourteen years, the level of
police reform has not yet succeed because of low community satisfaction on
police service and the intense conflicts always occur whenever ACA investigates
the case of corruptions conducted by police leaders. Three conflicts between
police institution and ACA have taken placed. By using institutionalism approach,
this research focus on the reform in police themselves are major actors on how
reforms are organized and managed. This study is interpretative in nature gained
only through social constructions such as language, consciousness, shared
meanings, documents, tools, and other artefacts’. This finding revealed that
this unsuccessful institutionalization process took place in a context of the
main task of police for communicty service. Second, the study has demonstrated
that three concepts from institutional theory as aforementioned
provided vocabularies and insights to explain the phenomenon under study | en_US |