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Corruption is admitted by several scholars as a main factor causing the decline of nations and, in the huger scale, civilizations. It is reasonable that this extraordinary crime disrupts the society in all aspects ranging from political to social. Therefore, nowadays, all entities struggle to identify the more effective methods lead to corruption eradication. In this regard, the education of anti-corruption values, then, is recognized as an appropriate way to preventing individuals from corruptive acts based on his own consciousness. This paper tries to examine the methods of Darussalam Gontor Islamic Institution in educating students, as agent of change, the values of anti-corruption by day-to-day activities both inside and outside classroom through hidden curriculum scheme. The data was compiled by interview, observation, and documentation. Using the descriptive-analysis method, it can be concluded that there are various instruments available in Gontor for the internalization of anti-corruption values such as tiered exemplary systems, assignments to manage transparent and accountable santri organizations, strict law enforcement against dishonesty, provision of preventive disciplinary rules, habituation to standing in queues, and environmental conditioning which is full of anti-corruption messages. In addition, materials containing integrity messages is also taught implicitly in various learning materials in the classroom. Such as Al-Mahfudzat, Al-Muthalaah, and Al-Hadith.

It is widely known that the national reform emerged on virtually two decades ago has mandated the Indonesian government to demolish the corrupt practices from their origins. In fact, the existence of corruption is generally realized no longer maximally declined in today's socio-economic life or even involves wider scopes. As a result, people tend to be more pessimistic towards attempts to curb this extraordinary crime. Even though many reasons have been offered by several scholars due to deal with this dilemma, the problems were steadily occur. Therefore, this article requiring further improvement tries to identify the fundamental issue which is rarely discussed; defnition of corruption. Through qualitative research using inductive method, a number of results have been found. Firstly, the recent defnition of corruption developed by mostly western scientists is quite inappropriate and leads to confusion instead of what have been discussed by Moslem scholars since classical era. Secondly, in Islamic point of view, recent corruption includes ghulûl, risywah, ghisy, and iḥtikâr which are addressed as economic crimes deserving certain consequences. And fnally, Islamic teaching provides the plenty of anti-corruption instruments ranging from organizing good governance in order to prevent every Moslem from committing corruption to imposing particular punishment upon the criminal.