Reformulating Restorative Justice Authority under Law Number 20 of 2025 on the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code
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This article examines the allocation of restorative justice authority under Law Number 20 of 2025 on the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP 2025) and formulates safeguards for coherent, voluntary, and reviewable implementation. Using normative legal research, it analyzes Articles 79–88 of KUHAP 2025, related police, prosecution, and Supreme Court regulations, the Sexual Violence Crime Law, and selected systematic reviews only as functional references for process risks and evaluation indicators. The study finds that KUHAP 2025 creates a statutory restorative-justice pathway across inquiry, investigation, prosecution, and trial, but coordination, consent verification, judicial scrutiny, data governance, and equality safeguards require more operational detail. It proposes an authority map, a minimum assessment form, a judicial-scrutiny standard, and monitoring indicators separated into outputs, outcomes, and safeguards. It also distinguishes short-term implementation through standard operating procedures and implementing regulations, medium-term harmonization of sectoral rules, and longer-term legislative refinement. The proposed model treats restorative justice as a rights-sensitive procedure rather than an informal shortcut to case disposal.
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