Purpose: This conceptual study examines how the education system, the political power system, and the economic system jointly shape the institutional conditions for corruption prevention in Indonesia, and proposes a systemic integrity framework linking these three domains.
Research Methodology: The study employs a conceptual qualitative design based on an integrative literature review and institutional analysis of corruption theory, political-finance and vote-buying research, anti-corruption education literature, and constitutional and ethical-economic sources; no primary data, sample, or statistical test is involved.
Results: The analysis indicates that corruption prevention weakens when education produces technical competence without corresponding ethical internalization, when political authority can be disproportionately acquired through financial resources, and when economic success is measured predominantly through material accumulation without accountability for its sources.
Conclusions: Sustainable corruption prevention in Indonesia depends less on the absence of normative foundations, since higher-education law and the 1945 Constitution already embed integrity, morality, and economic democracy, and more on the persistent gap between these formal mandates and their institutional implementation.
Limitations: As a conceptual synthesis, the framework has not been empirically tested, and its constructs and propositions require future quantitative validation.
Contributions: The study extends corruption research by repositioning education, political finance, and economic governance as upstream, interacting determinants of a national integrity ecosystem rather than isolated causes of individual wrongdoing, and offers policymakers and educators an integrative reference for designing preventive, rather than purely punitive, anti-corruption strategies.