Kemenkumham Bantah KUHP Terbaru Will OCCUR Tumpang Tindih With Terrorism Rules

A suicide bomb exploded in the yard of the Astanaanyar Police Headquarters Wednesday, December 12 morning. (Doc VOI)

TANGERANG - The Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) of the Republic of Indonesia ensures that there is no overlap between the new Criminal Code (KUHP) and regulations related to terrorism.

Acting (Plt) Director General of Legislation at the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Dhana Putra, said that the rules that apply to terrorism are special criminal acts.

Law Number 15 concerning terrorism is still in effect. So the enforcement was issued by each of these laws. But the offense was included in the Criminal Code, "Dhana told reporters at Poltekim and Poltekip Tangerang, Thursday, December 15.

"The law can be said to be a criminal constitution, all criminal acts are there. When enforcement is based on their respective laws. The Criminal Code does not talk to institutions, but only takes care of the crime," he continued.

Dhanhana gave an example of the Criminal Code's rules which are said to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). However, in fact, it is not what is imagined, because the KUHP rules only regulate from the side of its crimes, not their respective institutional laws.

"The KPK also said that, how come we are weakened? Not. In fact, on the one hand is that we regulate the crime alone but in terms of enforcement it is carried out through their respective laws, why? There are criteria related to this special crime, first is that they are supported by a special institution, for example terrorism there are BNPT, BNN narcotics, KPK there is a criminal act of corruption," he concluded