Legal Literacy - This article discusses the systematic and historical methods of legal interpretation in judges' decisions in corruption cases, along with their explanations..

Judges must not reject cases on the grounds that there is no law governing a concrete event registered with the court. To that end, the law requires judges to explore and discover the law that lives in society. Interpretation and construction of law are methods used by judges in applying and finding the law. Interpretation is a method to understand the meaning contained in legal texts and is used in resolving cases or making decisions on matters faced concretely.

Juridically and philosophically, judges have the authority to interpret the law so that the decisions they make are in accordance with the law and the sense of justice of the community. This applies to all judges in all judicial environments and in the scope of first instance, appellate and cassation courts.

Criminal law applies the principle of legality, which is the principle that determines that no act is prohibited and threatened with criminal sanctions if it is not determined in advance in a law. Criminal procedure law is also a procedural law that regulates how material criminal law is implemented and must be strictly enforced. Thus, the interpretations that can be used to interpret articles are very limited to grammatical and systematic interpretations, or at most historically and teleologically from the intended purpose.