Politisasi Senat Akademik Dan Relasinya Dengan Konflik Kepentingan dan Perilaku Korupsi di Perguruan Tinggi

Studies focusing on the role of higher education institutions (HEI) academic senate regarding corruption prevention are relatively scarce. By driving upon collective action and power balance theories, this study examines the effect of power imbalance caused by the double position of structural and academic senate leaders and the ex-officio practice in academic senate structure on conflict of interests and corruptive behavior. One hundred twenty-seven Indonesian lecturers from state and private HEIs participated in this study. The online data were analyzed by descriptive, t-test, ANOVA, and Hayes PROCESS of mediation and moderation model. The result reveals that the conflict of interests elicited by the power imbalance generated the corruptive behavior in HEIs, especially in terms of policy corruption. In practical terms, nepotism and transactional patterns were the most common acts of corruption committed by HEI officials.