(14/6/2023) | Indonesian Legal Auditor Competency Test and Education Training (PUSAHI Batch I) was successfully held on May 11 “ June 11 2023. This training was initiated by the Airlangga Center For Legal Drafting & Professional Development, Faculty of Law, Airlangga University (ALC FH UNAIR) in collaboration with the Association of Indonesian Legal Auditors (ASAHI) and also invited experts from various fields, including ; Dr. M. Rasyid Ridho, S.H., M.H.; Prof. Dr. Jimly Asshidiqie, S.H.; Dr. Maruarar Siahaan, S.H., M.H.; .; .; and Prof. Dr. Peter Mahmud Marzuki, S.H., M.S., LL.M.
Training Batch I, or the first batch, discusses legal auditors or legal auditors. Legal auditors are certified, independent, objective, and impartial examiners with competence in legal auditing.
The training activities, which were held for four days, included an introduction to the ASAHI organization, the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct for Indonesian Legal Auditors, legal logic and argumentation in legal audits, investigative audit techniques, legal investigations, and legal documentation based on electronic systems, work competency standards specific to the auditor profession Indonesian law, legal audits of various sectors, and ways to improve the quality of law graduates as legal auditors.
On the first day, the material that was first presented was organizational material, vision and mission, and ASAHI’s Code of Ethics. ASAHI was born driven by the many criminal law cases, trade disputes, corruption, employment, State Administration disputes (TUN), and disputes over other legal issues which impact poor law enforcement. ASAHI is expected to produce internal legal auditors who are competent, reliable, skilled, and have high integrity because legal auditors act as supervisors and play a role in preventing and resolving legal disputes.
ASAHI was founded on October 13, 2004. One of ASAHI’s goals is to foster legal auditors who are reliable, qualified, moral, accountable, and committed to participating in maintaining legal certainty. The word “audit” etymologically means inspection broadly, including evaluating institutions, systems, processes, or products. Legal audit (legal audit) examines legal and statutory aspects of an institution, procedure, process, and development by identifying legal subjects, objects, and actions.
“In conducting legal audits, legal auditors play a role in reviewing and identifying the objectives of legal audit assignments, planning legal audits, requesting confirmation of legal audit plans, collecting data and information, analyzing data and information, compiling reports on legal audit results, and submit a report on the results of a legal audit,” explained Dr. Qomaruddin, S.H., M.H. as a presenter.
Legal auditors, continued Dr. Qomaruddin, divided into four, namely internal legal auditors (in-house legal auditors), supervisory legal auditors (independent legal auditors), independent legal auditors (independent legal auditors), and supporting legal auditors. Meanwhile, the legal auditor level is divided into four stages: legal officer, legal auditor, legal risk manager, and chief legal officer.
“Legal auditors, in conducting their profession, must be independent and not influenced by any party and must maintain and uphold a sense of solidarity among fellow professional partners,” said Dr. Qamaruddin.
