Death Penalty for Corruptors in Indonesia

Main Authors: Hisyam Fahmi, Supardi2
Format: Article Journal
Bahasa: ang
Terbitan: , 2021
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5113077
Daftar Isi:
  • : Corruption has been widespread, it is increasingly systematic, inducing losses to the national economy. Article 2 paragraph (2) of Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts of Corruption, the death penalty can be imposed under certain conditions, but so far there is no corruptor has been sentenced to death. This study discussed issues related with corruption, including: first, how is the urgency of death penalty applied to corruptors in Indonesia, and secondly how the implementation of death penalty for corruptors in Indonesia. The method applied in this study was a normative legal research type, with a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. This study used primary legal materials, by collecting data from literature study, then analyzed using qualitative methods. The following conclusions can be drawn from this study: first, death penalty is a punishment that still needs to be included in the law, to prevent extraordinary crimes such as corruption, secondly, the formulation of law must be more accentuated even if needed, to be expanded in order to avoid any issues that could complicate the implementation and to prevent multiple interpretations.