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Political crimes or political criminal law in Indonesia are known in the Criminal Code, namely crimes against state security in Book Two of Chapter I. Meanwhile, the notion of political crime in Indonesia has not been explicitly defined in the legislation, giving rise to a wide understanding of the forms of political crimes. Corruption is a white-collar crime, it is necessary to study from the perspective of political criminal law whether corruption by state officials is a political crime. The purpose of this paper is to see whether a criminal act of corruption is a political crime and how is the punishment of criminal acts of corruption by state officials in the perspective of political criminal law. Normative juridical writing method with a conceptual approach. This study found that corruption by state officials is a political crime according to the categorization of the concept of political crime proposed by Dionysios Spinellis, namely crimes committed by power holders in accordance with Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning Corruption Crimes (UUTPK) Article 3 which states that the crime of corruption is a criminal act committed by a person who with the authority of his position or position is detrimental to state finances or the state economy. The punishment of a state official who commits a political crime, in this case a criminal act of corruption, may be subject to the provisions of Article 3 of the Corruption Crime Act in the form of imprisonment and/or a fine.

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