JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Law Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej said that the Criminal Procedure Law Book or KUHAP aims to protect individuals from the arbitrariness of law enforcement officials.
"Its function is to protect, protect. So, he protects human rights (HAM), not to process suspects," said Eddy, his nickname, at a socialization of the Criminal Procedure Code at the Ministry of Law Building, Jakarta, Thursday, quoted by Antara.
He explained that the KUHAP has 23 chapters and 369 articles. Articles 5 to 63 regulate the investigation and investigation. The rest regulates the stages of prosecution to detention.
Eddy said that the many articles that regulate the authority of the apparatus aim to explain the explanation explicitly, in detail, and clearly.
"Not in order to enlarge, expand, strengthen the law enforcement apparatus, but I want to say that the law enforcement apparatus is prohibited from acting outside of what is written," he said.
He also emphasized that the KUHAP has the characteristics of a law so that it is clear, written, and strictly applied or without interpretation other than what is written.
"If the KUHAP must be interpreted other than what is written, then there is an exceptio firmat regulam. The procedural law must not be interpreted so as to harm the suspect, the reported, the suspect, the defendant, the convicted, the prisoner, because earlier, the philosophy is to protect individuals from state arbitrariness," he said.
Law Number 20 of 2025 concerning the Code of Criminal Procedure was signed by Prabowo Subianto as President of the Republic of Indonesia and promulgated by Prasetyo Hadi as Minister of State Secretary, namely on December 17, 2025.
Based on Article 369 of the KUHP, the regulation has been in force since January 2, 2026.
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