What Are The Rights Of Justice Collaborator? This Is Understanding, Privileges, And Criteria

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YOGYAKARTA The rights of justice collaborators (JC) will be given to suspects who help law enforcers uncover organized crime cases or other threatening cases. This term appears in many court proceedings in various criminal cases such as corruption or the latest premeditated murder cases.

Being a justice collaborator is considered very profitable. A number of privileges will be given to the suspect who becomes JC, namely in the form of granting certain rights whose implementation is guaranteed and regulated by law. Then, what rights will be accepted by justice collaborators?

As is known, the rights granted to justice collaborators are stated in Law Number 31 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 13 of 2006 concerning the Protection of Witnesses and Victims.

In the law, there are several rights that will be given to the suspect who becomes a justice collaborator, namely as follows.

A justice collaborator will receive legal protection. This means that he cannot be prosecuted legally for the testimony he gives. A JC cannot be prosecuted either criminally or civilly, unless the testimony he gives is not in good faith.

However, if there are lawsuits against justice collaborators because of their testimony, the charges must be postponed until the case related to them has been decided by the court and has permanent legal force. Not only that, the perpetrators will also receive special treatment during the examination process, namely as follows.

A justice collaborator will also receive an award that can take various forms, namely as follows.

The rights granted to justice collaborators are in the form of physical and psychological protection. The granting of this right is as regulated in the Joint Regulation of the Minister of Law and Human Rights, Attorney General, National Police Chief, Corruption Eradication Commission, and Chair of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency Number: M.HH-11.HM.03.02.2011, Number: PER-045/A/JA/12/2011, Number: 1 Year 2011, Number: KEPB-02/01-55/12/2011, Number: 4 Year 2011 concerning Protection for Whistleblowers, Reporting Witnesses and Cooperative Witnesses.

To become a justice collaborator, there are a number of criteria described in the Circular Letter of the Supreme Court (SEMA) No. 04 of 2011, Joint Regulation of the Minister of Law and Human Rights, Attorney General, Chief of Police, KPK, and LPSK concerning Protection for Whistleblowers, Reporting Witnesses, and Cooperative Witnesses, listed in Number (9a) and (b) as follows.

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