566 Reports Alleged Judge Violating Code Of Ethics Entered The Judicial Commission Early 2023

The Judicial Commission (KY) in the Senen area, Central Jakarta. (Antaranews)

The Judicial Commission (KY) has received 566 public reports and 360 copies related to alleged violations of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct of Judges (KEPPH) and requests for trial monitoring in the first quarter of 2023.

"The number of public reports has increased. If in the first quarter of 2022 KY only received 385 reports, but in the first quarter of 2023 there were 566 reports received plus 360 copies, bringing the total to 926 reports," said Head of Judge Supervision and Investigation Division of KY Joko Sasmito at a press conference in the KY Press Room, Jakarta, Wednesday, April 12, confiscated by Antara.

He revealed that civil problems still dominate as many as 292 reports. Meanwhile, related to criminal cases, there were 160 reports.

Complaints related to criminal acts of corruption as many as 26 reports, religious cases as many as 22 reports, state administration as many as 19 reports, industrial relations disputes as many as 9 reports, commercial as many as 7 reports, taxes and neighborhoods with 5 reports each, military as many as 2 reports, sharia as many as 1 report, and others as many as 18 reports.

Based on the location of the complaint, Joko revealed that the cities with the most reports were DKI Jakarta (97 reports), followed by East Java (52 reports), and West Java (51 reports).

Of the 566 public reports in the first quarter of 2023, said Joko, KY received 232 monitoring requests from 147 community reports and 85 monitoring based on the KY initiative.

It was recorded that the result of the follow-up to the request for monitoring for the period January to March 2023 was that 99 could be monitored, 43 could not be monitored, 88 were in the analysis stage, and 2 were transferred to the Bureau of Investigation/Advocacy/Bawas.

The cases that attracted public attention monitored by KY included the Unila Chancellor Corruption Case, the case of spreading false diploma information of President Joko Widodo, the Kanjuruhan riot case, the corruption case of the Supreme Court judge of SD et al, the narcotics case of the former West Sumatra Police Chief Inspector General Teddy Minahasa Putra, and others.