The Judicial Mafia Becomes More Curious
The rule of law is getting crippled
By Aceng Syamsulhadie, S.Sos., MM. (*)
With the appointment of the four suspects Muhammad Arif Nuryanto, former Deputy Chairman of the Central Jakarta District Court, as well as three members of the panel, namely Djuyamto as chairman of the assembly, Agam Syarief Baharuddin as member, and Ali Muhtarom as an ad hoc judge for the bribery case of judges related to the onslag or release decision in the case of Giving Crude Palm Oil Export Facility (CPO) and its derivatives to Palm Oil Industry, This drew strong condemnation and great reaction from various political figures and legal practitioners to the behavior of four judges who had tarnished tearing and tearing the good name of the Indonesian judiciary.
How could it not, just yesterday it was shocked by the incident of two bribery cases, namely the bribery case of Gregory Ronald Tannur’s acquittal at the Surabaya District Court and the bribery case of the light sentence against Harvey Moeis for tin corruption that was proven to have cost the state up to hundreds of trillion rupiahs, Although both of them have renewed their verdicts, they are deeply attached to the public’s mind that there have been judicial mafia practices, as well as many more cases that illustrate how mushrooming and bitter the judicial mafia has become in our homeland.
When the judicial mafia is already Menggurita and legal transactional practices occur everywhere and at every level both in the center and in the region, it is certain that the rule of law will be crippled. People will despair and distrust law enforcement officials, including the government and the state, because their hopes of seeking justice have disappeared.
The judicial mafia is a network of corrupt practices in the judicial system that involves various parties such as judges, court employees, lawyers, and litigants to influence trial proceedings and verdicts. The judicial mafia occurs because the supposed professional relationship between law enforcement and litigants turns into transactional relationships, occurring at all levels in public courts, high courts, and the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court.
While rule of law is a principle that places law as the highest reference in the lives of nations and states, where rule of law is one of the fundamental principles of liberal democracy and the state of law, it must be respected and enforced, without exception and used as a guideline in every action. including by individuals, governments, law enforcement authorities and all persons must be subject to the same law, in order to protect all citizens from justice without intervention by and from any party, including the state administrator, preventing abuse of power, protecting human rights, and protecting the public. and encourage democratic life
and far from the influence of judicial mafia practices.
Judicial mafia practices include abuse of authority, position, or public power, misadministration, conducting acts against the law, trading in justice, such as bribery, case brokers, internal and external interventions that can affect judicial decisions and the use of certain advocates. Trial engineering, illegal and transactional levies.
Here are some steps that the government can take in dealing with and overcoming the already intriguing judicial mafia, among others; Applying technology in supervision and involving external parties, either community or anti-corruption agencies, implementing performance assessment systems objectively in ethics, integrity and professionalism, Increasing transparency and accountability and giving severe punishment to the perpetrators of judicial mafia practices impoverished to deter and serve as a punishment example for other perpetrators, by taking those steps, the government can help overcome the judicial mafia and increase public trust in the judicial system.
*Author,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the DPP ASWIN (International Association of Journalists).
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