The Role of The Merit System and Government Internal Control System Maturity on The Success of Corruption Prevention to Realize Sustainability, Moderated by Employee Integrity (Perception of Internal Supervisory Apparatus of Bukittinggi City Government)

The goal of sustainable development on economic, social, and earth sustainability aspects can only be realized by the Government and its people through a high commitment to eradicate corruption. Therefore, every government tries to promote anti-corruption programs. However, little is known about how effective such programs are, especially in local governments in developing countries such as Indonesia, and whether the aspects of anti-corruption programs affect the effectiveness of corruption prevention. This study proposes two important aspects of corruption prevention efforts, namely the merit system in civil servant management and SPIP (Government Internal Control System) Maturity. Tests were conducted to examine the effect of the merit system and SPIP maturity on the effectiveness of corruption prevention, with integrity as a moderating variable, in terms of the perception of Regional APIP (Government Internal Supervisory Servant). The test results show that the merit system, SPIP maturity, and employee integrity have a significant positive effect on the effectiveness of corruption prevention, both simultaneously and partially. Employee integrity has the greatest influence. However, employee integrity cannot moderate the influence of the two independent variables. Employee integrity here is a moderating predictor, which can only act as a predictor (independent variable), not as a moderating variable.