Minister of Home Affairs: The New Criminal Code Must Be Socialized with Maximum

Deputy Minister of Law Edward Omar Sjarief Hiariej said that socialization of the new Criminal Code or KUHP must be improved so that all levels of society understand the concept of restorative justice.

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Law Edward Omar Sjarief Hiariej said that the socialization of the new Criminal Code or KUHP must be improved so that all layers of society understand the concept of restorative justice.

According to Eddy Hiariej, his nickname, the majority of the public still has the mindset that legal action must be punished with the Criminal Code, which is to retaliate against the offender.

"That indicates that our mindset is still using criminal law as a means of revenge," Eddy said at a Criminal Code socialization event at the Ministry of Law's office, Kuningan, South Jakarta, Antara, Monday, January 26.

In fact, continued the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, the new Criminal Code refers to a modern criminal law paradigm that is oriented towards corrective justice, restorative justice, and rehabilitative justice.

He continued that the discussion of the new Criminal Code has also gone through various stages, one of which is discussion at the level of academics, experts and the House of Representatives (DPR).

During the discussion stage, academics and the DPR have included various issues so that the new Criminal Code is relevant to the needs of the community.

Therefore, Eddy hopes that the public can understand that legal products that exist in the new Criminal Code, one of which is restorative justice, can have a positive impact on law enforcement in Indonesia.

"Everything and it meets the provisions for a case to be taken the restorative path. So that there is no impression that the police have been paid, the prosecutor has been paid, or the judge has been paid, even though the mechanism has been introduced both in the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code," he explained.