Corruption is one of big problems in many countries, especially in
Indonesia due to the terrible effects it resulted. The impacts of corruption
destroy the principles of national quality, hamper the development and inflict
the nation’s financial loss. Therefore, the government had continuously
increased the effort, which began by issuing the legislation regulation to the
establishing of special commission to remove corruption, called Komisi
Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK). It was arranged in the Acts No. 30 of 2002 on
the Commission of Corruption Remove that was based on the Act No. 31 Jo
the Act No 20 of 2001 on the Corruption Remove. This paper concerned to the
roles of KPK in controlling/removing corruption, the problems it faced and the
effort to handle the problems. While the objectives of this study was to collect
data about the roles of KPK, the problems it faced and the effort to cope with
them. This study used normative method that was studying literature construct
both individual and general secondary data. The result showed that the roles of
KPK were coordinating the research, investigation and suit of criminal act of
corruption, collecting information and holding hearing with other institutions
concerning to the corruption remove. The problems faced were the clash in the
task and function interpretation with other institution such as the police
department and attorney, the lack of funds, disproportional human resources
that they are not corrupt in performing their jobs and authorities. It also needs
be proved independent institution in implementing and taking preventive and
firm actions against the corruptions.