Indonesia as a law country is being crisis in law itself now. Not only caused by some citizens who do not obey the law, but also the law enforcer could not maintain the law itself well. Most citizens begin to not believe the government or the law enforcer anymore. The jurisdiction (=pengadilan) as a justice institution have not been able to give satisfaction to the citizen, especially to low society. It is proven by many incidents happen in this country. Corruptors which has been proven that they do corruption is still free to go anywhere, even go abroad. In fact, they have corrupted millions or billions rupiahs citizen money. On the other hand, in some small village in this country, pickpockets (=copet) or little thief usually get many violent as a punishment of little crime they have done. Even though, they steal because they are perforce (=terpaksa) to do that. They are perforce to steal just to fulfill their daily needs. It is clearly not fair. The corruptors which have stolen great much citizen money get lower punishment than little criminalist citizen get.
Police as one of law enforcer who have to cover and protect citizen could not give good service to them. Sometimes, some of them misuse their job to get extra money, beside their salary as police. They only think about their self without obey the regulation. A criminalist, such as drugs consumer or drugs distributor, can go out freely from the prison by giving money with certain number of money. It makes the criminalist doesn’t need to law process anymore after paying. It seems money can control the law enforcer, not law itself. Beside money, party need of certain community will be the first priority than society need overall, as long as they can pay the law enforcer.
Let’s take a look in one of corruption case in this country. About two years ago, Century Bank case was being hot discussion topic. Sri Mulyani, previous Economic minister of Indonesia, was accused corrupting some number of money on that bank.. In her law process, she rarely attended her jurisdiction and law enforcer couldn’t do something more to present her in jurisdiction. It seemed, as economic minister, law didn’t give any sense on her. It had been clear that the government is not fair in enforcing law in our lovely country, moreover, when she got job offer from World Bank in America. Now, Mrs. Sri Mulyani can do her daily activities on abroad much better than she was in Indonesia. Even though, she still has case in Indonesia which she has to finish. Her law process is not discussed anymore like blowing wind. It is like being forgotten. Indonesia law doesn’t give any sense on her case. That was one of sample that law enforcement in our country is very poor.
In one survey named “world justice project 2011 rule of law”, there were 65 countries had been surveyed about their law enforcement. In this survey, Indonesia was in rank 47 in global. It means corruption has been grown significantly in Indonesia and law have not been able to overcome it yet.
Finally, to overcome this problem, we have to have clear law which is able to be obeyed by the citizen and can be enforced by the law enforcer. We don’t have to reconstruct our law. The thing we have to do is improve our law system by observing every false point in our law system. The most important thing we have to do is educate our children well as the next generation of our country. (are_home)
by Muhammad Arham | Hasanuddin University
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