Legal Literacy - This article delves into the urgency of in absentia trials in corruption cases involving fugitives in Indonesia, examining the legal implications and the need to recover state financial assets. Discover in-depth insights into the legal process and challenges in maximizing the return of state losses due to corruption.

Law Enforcement Dynamics in Corruption Cases with Fugitive Defendants

Indonesia is currently shaken by corruption cases with very large nominal values from throughout the history of corruption cases that have occurred in Indonesia. Corruption is closely related to state financial losses, which then become an urgency to be recovered through appropriate law enforcement processes. In the law enforcement process, corruption perpetrators will not always be cooperative and responsible for the crimes they have committed. On the contrary, there are corruption perpetrators who flee and are listed as wanted persons (DPO), and finally the law enforcement process cannot be carried out optimally. The existence of corruption perpetrators with DPO status then gives rise to the implementation of in absentia trials.

The legal basis for implementing in absentia trials needs to be explored to ensure the realization of legal certainty as the main goal of law, considering that Indonesia is a State of Law as stipulated in Article 1 Paragraph (3) of the 1945…