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The reform system in Indonesia has fostered democratization in the government system. However, the practice of political corruption is also increasingly prevalent among the political elite. the multiparty political system that forms a cartel party is one of the factors that increases the occurrence of political corruption. The cartel party creates a system of cooperation that is able to maintain and regulate the state in accordance with the interests of its groups, especially in finding funding sources that come from state finances. This article aims to determine the relationship between cartel party practices and the perpetuation of political corruption in Indonesia. The role of the cartel party in the occurrence of political corruption is the main subject of this article. To fulfill the purpose of writing in this article, then the example of the Century Bank case scandal involving many political elites will be examined and analyzed more deeply. The qualitative method used in this study was obtained through a literature review. This study found that the cartel party system has given freedom to the form of political corruption, eliminated the system of checks and balances, the death of freedom of speech, and brought false hope to the established democratic system of a state government.

Political corruption is an abuse of authority and position by political elites, both those in the parliament and the executive, as well as the core management. Law enforcement using the Corruption Law is unable to touch Political Parties as legal subjects. For this reason, it is necessary to regulate more explicit campaign funds, because one source of political corruption is the amount of political funds to campaign.

Political corruption is less common in states that have Moralistic political cultures and more educated populations. Contrary to expectations, however, political corruption is not related to crime rates or urbanization.

Although political leaders, donors and some scholars would argue that there is nothing illegal behind the idea of giving and receiving campaign contributions, this research attempts to demonstrate the contrary. Here, I claim that small and large contributions constitute representations of political corruption because they are given for specific purposes either ideological or personal. Since the relationship between campaign financing and political corruption has not been studied worldwide, in this thesis I conduct a cross-country analysis of 83 countries and find that there is less political corruption: 1) in countries where elections are not funded with public resources; 2) in countries where the impact of legal campaign financing on public policy outcomes is lower; 3) in countries where regulations impose ceilings on election expenses and on the amount of money that parties/candidates can raise in each election; and 4) in countries where regulations make the public disclosure of campaign expenditures compulsory.