Don't Play, NBT Prosecutor: We Can Carry Out Wiretapping

Spokesperson for the NTB Prosecutor's Office, Dedi Irawan. (ANTARA/Dhimas BP)

MATARAM - The West Nusa Tenggara High Prosecutor's Office confirmed that it was able to conduct wiretapping in accordance with the results of the DPR RI's decision to ratify the draft law regarding amendments to Law (UU) No. 16 of 2004 concerning the RI Attorney General's Office.

"According to what has been ratified by the Indonesian House of Representatives, we (the prosecutor's office) have been able to take wiretapping actions," said NTB Prosecutor's Office spokesman Dedi Irawandi Mataram, Monday, December 20.

Wiretapping, he explained, was not only at the investigation stage but also at the stage of investigation, prosecution, execution, and the search for fugitives.

However, with this authority, the NTB Prosecutor's Office will still coordinate with the team in charge of monitoring wiretapping at the Indonesian Attorney General's Office.

"So we do temporary wiretapping in coordination with the Attorney General's Office because in NTB there is no supporting equipment," he said.

Under the new Prosecutor's Law, the Prosecutor has the authority to carry out criminal statistics and judicial health activities at the Prosecutor's Office.

In addition, prosecutors also have the authority to actively participate in the search for the truth in cases of serious human rights violations and certain social conflicts for the realization of justice. witnesses and victims as well as the process of rehabilitation, restitution, and compensation.

Including penal mediation, confiscation of executions for payment of criminal fines as well as criminal substitutes and restitution. Penal mediation is an alternative dispute resolution, renewal, criminal justice system

"It's all part of the prosecutor's authority," said Dedi. This was reported by Antara.