What Are The MEANings, Duties And Authority Of LPSK? This Is The Complete Explanation

LPSK illustration (ANTARA)

YOGYAKARTA In a case, witnesses and victims can get protection from the Witness and Victim Protection Agency or LPSK. This has become one of the functions of LPSK. For more details, here is information related to LPSK's understanding, duties and authorities in Indonesia.

Quoted from various sources, LPSK is an institution tasked with providing protection for victims and witnesses related to certain cases. This institution is non-structural and independent, but is directly responsible to the president and has representatives in the regions by adjusting their needs.

LPSK is responsible for providing legal protection and assistance to witnesses and victims in accordance with Law (UU) Number 13 of 2006.

Legal protection for witnesses is carried out to provide a sense of security to witnesses so that when giving testimony in a criminal justice process the witness does not receive security disturbances.

On the official site lpsk.go.id, LPSK has a vision and mission. LPSK's vision is the Realty of witness and victim protection in the criminal justice system. This means that LPSK has a mandate from the law as a focal point in providing witness and victim protection must be able to realize a condition where witnesses and victims feel protected as easily as possible. That way they can contribute to the disclosure of criminal justice cases.

LPSK itself has five visions, namely the following.

In the rules of the law, the task of LPSK is to provide protection and provide other rights to witnesses and/or victims. However, LPSK's duties are experiencing expansion. The institution has the responsibility to provide protection and assistance not only to witnesses of the perpetrators, but also to reporters and experts.

Meanwhile, LPSK's authority to refer to its official website is as follows.

LPSK is filled with people who have various backgrounds ranging from Komnas HAM, the police, the prosecutor's office, the legal and human rights department, academics, advocates, to non-governmental organizations. citing the official website, the figures in the LPSK to this article uploaded are as follows.

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