(20/5/2023) | Center for Anti-Corruption Studies and Criminal Law Policy (CACCP) Faculty of Law, 51动漫 (FH UNAIR), in collaboration with Transparency International Indonesia (TII) held a national seminar entitled “Strengthening Public Participation in Increasing the Integrity of Court Institutions” on Wednesday (17/5/2023) at Pancasila Hall, Building A FH UNAIR. The seminar invited three panelists, namely Dizar Al Farizi (East Java Judicial Commission Liaison Coordinator); Riza Alifianto Kurniawan, S.H., MTCP (Academician and Expert in Criminal Law FH UNAIR); and Wawan Suyatmiko (Deputy Secretary General of TII).
Riza Alifianto said that criminal law enforcement could not be separated from an integrated criminal justice system so that justice could be carried out and achieved. However, enforcement of criminal law can be hampered due to corruption. Contributions between sub-criminal justice systems are needed to realize high integrity in achieving justice.
“The judicial mafia is real. There is an intervention that harms the judiciary. So does this judiciary need reform? Who should reform the judiciary? The one who has the obligation is the Supreme Court, as mandated by Article 24A of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The Supreme Court must have the commitment and responsibility to carry out these reforms,” said the UNAIR FH criminal law lecturer.
He also said that judicial reform was carried out by strengthening judges’ integrity, case management, balancing the workload of human resources in the judiciary, and using information systems and case management. In addition, community participation is also crucial as court observers and whistleblowers.
Meanwhile, Wawan Suyatmiko, said that Indonesia was in 34th position in 2023 for the corruption perception index. Previously, the highest corruption index in Indonesia was in 2019. Wawan Suyatmiko emphasized that in monitoring the judiciary to be free from corruption, judges and clerks oversee it.
“There is one issue called sextortion. This term refers to the phenomenon of power that exploits sexuality by providing services of sexuality. Indonesia is the country with the highest number of sextortion cases. In 2009 – 2010, Judge Setyabudi Cahyo asked for compensation for sexual services in exchange for having released the perpetrators of corruption at that time. This phenomenon is where officials abuse their authority, and things like this are still not regulated by positive law in Indonesia. The case of Judge Setyabudi proves that power relations also play a role in corruption cases that occur in court,” explained Wawan.
