To Law Enforcement Leaders, Coordinating Minister For Politics, Law And Security: Don't Hang The Legal Process Too Long

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD advised Attorney General ST Burhanuddin, National Police Chief General Idham Azis, and the Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Firli Bahuri so that the judicial process could run quickly. He reminded law enforcers not to hang up the judicial process for a long time.

"Law enforcers, in this case the Corruption Eradication Commission, the District Attorney General's Office, and the National Police also encourage the court process to work quickly, not to hang on for too long because it concerns people's human rights," Mahfud said in his statement, Monday, June 22.

The former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK) said that when someone is found guilty, law enforcers should immediately submit their case to the court. "Because that is the rule of law. However, what takes too long to decide what kind of case is it. Can be proven or not," he said.

In addition, Mahfud said, this law enforcement leader must also commit that law enforcement must be reinstated and become a priority to be resolved immediately. This, said Mahfud, is important so that cases that have been hanging and become problems can be resolved. This is because hanging cases are often a political commodity.

"It must be decided, for the sake of the law, for human rights, and for the good of this nation," he said.

He asked law enforcers not to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to stop investigating legal cases. "Don't give the legal notice that it will stop just because there is a pandemic," Mahfud explained.

"The law must continue for the sake of legal certainty," he concluded.