Vol. 1, No. 1, 1-14 Published by the Faculty of Law, University of Dr. Soetomo Open access at: https://ejournal.unitomo.ac.id/index.php/justice 1 Type: Research Article Discourse on Corruption from an Administrative Law Perspective Lanny Ramli Faculty of Law, University of Airlangga, Indonesia E-mail: lanny.ramli@fh.unair.ac.id Muklis Al’anam Faculty of Law, University of Airlangga, Indonesia E-mail: muklis.alanam-2023@fh.unair.ac.id ABSTRACT KEYWORDS Corruption is implicitly defined as the unlawful misuse of authority, position, or trust to obtain personal gain or benefit from certain groups that may harm the public interest and may harm the public interest. The criminal offense of corruption in its various forms includes extortion, bribery, and gratuities, which have occurred for a long time with perpetrators ranging from state officials to corruption offenses in various forms include extortion, bribery, and gratuities, which have occurred for a long time with perpetrators ranging from state officials to the lowest from state officials to the lowest employees. Corruption essentially starts with a habit, which is not realized by every apparatus. That every official does not realize, starting from the habit of receiving tribute, gifts, bribes, the provision of certain facilities or others, and in the end. Corruption begins with actions that violate accountability. Accountability. Official accountability is embodied in the principle of accountability. Research This research refers to the normative research method, with a statutory, case, and conceptual approach. Statutory, case, and conceptual approaches. This concludes that the criminal offense of corruption is certainly related to administrative law in the context of abuse of authority over the position held. Corruption Crime; Abuse of Authority; Accountability Principle Copyright ©2025 by Author(s); This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All writings published in this journal are the personal views of the authors and do not represent the views of this journal and the author's affiliated institutions.