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Judicial Advocacy: Reconstructing Judge Security Guarantees

By Sri Indah Lestari

04 Sep 2024 07:54 WIB 04 September 2024 07:54 WIB 5 minutes reading time: 5 minutes 42 read

This article discusses Acts Degrading the Honor and Dignity of Judges (PMKH) that threaten the security of a judge.

Judicial Advocacy: Reconstructing Judge Security Guarantees

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Table of Contents

Understanding PMKH
The Influence of Digitalization Development on Threats Against Judges Outside the Court
Hopes for Creating More Guaranteed Security for Judges

Legal Literacy - Judges have the nickname as God's representatives. This nickname arises from the role of a judge in achieving justice by imposing legal sanctions commensurate with what someone has done. In addition to carrying out his role, a judge has the task of examining, adjudicating and deciding cases. In maintaining the harmony between the role and duties of this judge, strong independence and integrity of the judge are needed so that the resulting decision is not tainted. If the independence or integrity of a judge is tainted by outside parties, it will have a bad impact on the court system.

In this process in court, in reality, there are quite a few negative reactions received by a judge for the decisions he has made. One of the negative reactions resulting from a decision is called PMKH.

Understanding PMKH

Let me explain a little about this PMKH. PMKH (Acts Degrading the Honor and Dignity of Judges) is stated in Article 1 number 2 of the Judicial Commission (KY) Regulation which reads: Acts degrading the honor and dignity of judges are acts of individuals, groups of people or legal entities that interfere with the trial process, or judges in examining, adjudicating, deciding cases, threatening the security of judges inside and outside the courtroom, insulting judges and the court. Based on this Article, we can know that PMKH acts can be categorized into 3 (three) types, namely; first, disrupting the trial process, in the case of judges in examining, adjudicating, and deciding cases, second, threatening the security of judges inside and outside the court, third, insulting judges and the court.

Of the three categories of PMKH acts that have the potential to threaten the life of a judge is the second category, namely: threatening the security of judges inside and outside the court. Why is this PMKH category more likely to threaten the life of a judge? Because PMKH acts outside the court are not directly supervised by internal supervisory institutions or external supervisory institutions. The supervisory institution will only exist if there is a report of alleged PMKH that has occurred.