ABSTRACT
Indonesia’s criminal law system faces major challenges. Despite the country’s transition to democracy, both the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code are badly out of date, the former only superficially changed since colonial times and the latter remaining as it was under Soeharto’s authoritarian New Order regime.
Law enforcement officers and judges are widely seen as corrupt or incompetent, and new laws, including new Islamic laws passed at the regional level, often contradict the Criminal Code and national statutes, including human rights laws.
This book, based on extensive original research by leading scholars in the field, provides an overall assessment of the state of criminal law, law enforcement and penal policy in Indonesia, considers in depth a wide range of specific areas of criminal law, and discusses recent efforts at reform and their prospects for success.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
The criminal law codes
chapter 4|20 pages
Ordinary laws and extraordinary crimes
part II|86 pages
Crime, reform and the Courts
chapter 6|26 pages
Reconsidering reform
part III|132 pages
Penalties and sentencing
chapter 9|33 pages
Injustice and inconsistency
part IV|86 pages
Crime and the environment
part V|109 pages
Crime and religion
chapter 15|33 pages
Blasphemy prosecutions in Indonesia and the Ahok case
chapter 18|14 pages
Hudud and corruption
part VI|54 pages
Criminal law in Aceh