Professor Of Law Encourages The Criminal Procedure Code Bill To Overcome The Sectoral Ego Between Law Enforcers

JAKARTA - Professor of Law at Al-Azhar University Indonesia, Suparji Ahmad, encourages the Draft Criminal Procedure Code (RUU KUHAP) to produce a law system that is collaborative between law enforcement officials and guarantees justice in the law enforcement process.

"How to build a law enforcement process system that can prevent sectoral egos between law enforcement officers," said Suparji in his statement in Jakarta, Antara, Friday, August 1.

The spirit of the KUHAP update should be directed at strengthening cooperation between law enforcers. Synergistic collaboration, according to Suparji, is very important in order to eliminate sectoral egos that have been the main obstacle in the criminal justice system.

"The revision of the Criminal Procedure Code must be able to answer the root of problems in our justice system," he said.

Suparji highlighted the weakness of the control mechanism between law enforcers and the lack of internal and external supervision as a fundamental problem. Therefore, he considered, the new Criminal Procedure Code also needs to regulate in more detail the protection of the rights of suspects, convicts, and reported parties.

He also emphasized the importance of the role of the court in supervising the entire legal process, ranging from determining suspects, confiscation, to arresting.

On the same occasion, Executive Director of the Indonesia Millennials Center (IMC), Yerikhur Alfredo Manurung, assessed that the discussion of the Criminal Procedure Code must involve broad public participation and ensure the existence of a monitoring system for its implementation.

"We support the Criminal Procedure Code Bill, but public input is still needed, then strengthened by the supervision or control of the system," said Yerik.

For information, the government and the Indonesian House of Representatives have completed discussions on 130 out of a total of 1,676 problem inventory lists (DIM) in the Criminal Procedure Code Bill. The rest, around 1,500 DIM, are not discussed because they are permanent, repositional, and editorial.

The discussion of 130 DIMs was completed on July 10, 2025. Furthermore, Commission III of the DPR RI formed the Perumus Team (Timus) and the Synchronization Team (Timsin) to tidy up the results of the discussion and editorial alignment.