Attorney General: More Than 100 Cases Were Resolved Restoratively By The Attorney General's Office

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin during a working meeting with Commission III of the DPR at the Parliament complex, Jakarta, Monday, June 29 (Aditya Pradana Putra / Antara)

JAKARTA - Attorney General ST Burhanuddin said there were more than 100 minor criminal cases in all prosecutors working areas in Indonesia that had been resolved restoratively.

"The goal for the handling of criminal case can be put forward as restorative justice or peace, especially with regard to cases of relatively mild and beraspek humanity, such as the theft of the value of the losses minimal, a criminal offense that is trivial," Abdullah said in a statement in Jakarta, told Antara , Sunday, October 18th.

This is stated in the Republic of Indonesia Prosecutor's Regulation Number 15 of 2020 concerning Cessation of Prosecution Based on Restorative Justice which was signed by Attorney General ST Burhanuddin on July 21, which has resolved more than 100 minor criminal cases in all high prosecutors and public prosecutors in the country.

In the general provisions of Article 1 paragraph 1 of the Prosecutor's Office Regulation (Perja) Number 15/2020, it is explained that restorative justice is the settlement of a criminal case by involving the perpetrator, the victim, the perpetrator's family or the victim, and related parties to jointly seek a fair settlement with emphasizes restoration to its original state, and not retaliation.

The statement regarding the restorative settlement was also conveyed by the Attorney General when he was the keynote speaker for a webinar on the theme of Quality and Fair Law Enforcement through the Prosecutorial Bill held by the Indonesian Prosecutors Association (PJI) for the South Sulawesi Region in collaboration with the Prosecutor's Study Center, Faculty of Law, Hasanuddin University Makassar, South Sulawesi, Wednesday October 14th.

Furthermore, Article 5 states that there are several conditions to stop the prosecution of criminal cases based on restorative justice.

Namely, the suspect is committing a criminal act for the first time, and is only threatened with a fine or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, and the value of evidence or loss incurred as a result of the crime is not more than two million five hundred thousand rupiah.