Attorney General Guarantees The Prosperousness Of The Prosecutor's Office So As Not To Become A Political Tool In The 2024 Election

Attorney General ST Burhanuddin/DOK PHOTO BETWEEN

JAKARTA - Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin guarantees the neutrality of the Prosecutor's Office by maintaining institutional dignity so as not to be used as a tool of practical political interests in the upcoming 2024 election.

This was conveyed by the Attorney General in a meeting with Commission III of the DPR at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Thursday, November 16.

The Attorney General initially read out the agenda of his institutional meeting with the DPR to discuss three main things. First, Commission III of the DPR asked for an explanation from the attorney general regarding the coordination pattern of the integrated law enforcement center forum or takkumdu in handling election criminal cases by maintaining neutrality and professionalism of prosecutors' personnel.

"As we all know, the process of handling election criminal cases is carried out by the Gakkumdu center," said the Attorney General in the DPR Commission III room, Thursday, November 16.

The Attorney General said that the Attorney General's Office collaborated with Bawaslu and the National Police, as a form of implementation of the mandate of Article 486 paragraph 1 of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning general elections.

"In a concise manner, the coordination pattern carried out by the prosecutor's office at the Gakkumdu center with joint discussions to equalize perceptions in the takkumdu system at every stage," he explained.

This pattern, he continued, is regulated in chapter 4 of Bawaslu Regulation Number 3 of 2023 concerning the center of integrated election law enforcement consisting of 8 stages, namely the study of election violations, investigations, plenary meetings of election supervisors, successors, investigations, pretrials, prosecutions and implementation of decisions.

Sanitiar explained that the new thing in the coordination pattern of handling election cases is that prosecutors have the task and obligation to carry out prosecution monitoring by reporting in writing every prosecution activity to the Gakkumdu center.

The report was also submitted at every stage of the discussion which was attended by the Gakkumdu center in the context of implementing the legitimacy of the prosecutor's office to maintain neutrality in order to support and succeed in holding the 2024 simultaneous elections.

"Constraints in handling election criminal cases still often occur, especially against offenses that are threatened with imprisonment under 5 years old which cannot be detained," he explained.

"So, often from the legal loopholes used by the perpetrators to avoid legal snares by buying time for the process of handling election criminal cases because it is considered time or expiration," added the Attorney General.

The Attorney General hopes that the coordination pattern of checks and balances creates an understanding so that the handling of election criminal cases can be carried out more quickly, precisely in order to maintain the principle of neutrality in handling it.

Meanwhile, in law enforcement related to the handling of election crimes, the Attorney General ordered the ranks of special crimes and intelligence services to postpone the investigation process, both in every stage of investigation and investigation of the handling of reports of alleged corruption crimes involving participants in election contestation since it was determined in the candidacy until the series of election events was completed.

In addition, the prosecutor's office will always be ready to coordinate all stakeholders related to the implementation of simultaneous general elections in 2024.

"We ensure the neutrality of all prosecutors by maintaining the dignity of law enforcement so that it is not used as a tool of interest or practical politics for any group that will affect and interfere with the holding of simultaneous 2024 general elections," he concluded.