Legal Literacy - Extradition is the process of returning a person suspected or accused of committing a crime (Deli Waryenti, 2012). The extradition process can only be carried out after the country where the perpetrator is located (referred to as the Requested State) has an international agreement regarding the extradition with the requesting country (referred to as the Requesting State).

Based on this understanding, the extradition carried out by the requesting country aims to ensure that the perpetrator of criminal acts or crimes can be held accountable for all actions committed. This request is also for the sake of the perpetrators of crimes to be tried because it is unethical and contrary to justice if the perpetrators of crimes are not tried and punished for their criminal acts.

The requesting country's request to surrender the perpetrators of crimes to be tried is also based on the definition of extradition by M. Cherif Bassioni, who states that extradition is a legal process based on treaties, reciprocity, respect, or national law, in which a country grants or sends to another country, a person accused or convicted of a crime against the law of the requesting country that violates criminal law international law in order to be tried or punished in the requesting country in connection with the crime stated in the request (M. Cherif Bassioni in Anis Widyawati, 2014).

In Indonesia itself, there is already an Extradition Law, namely Law No. 1 of 1979 concerning Extradition, which provides an understanding of extradition, namely the surrender by a country to a country requesting the surrender of a person suspected or convicted of committing a crime outside the territory of the surrendering country and within the jurisdiction of the territory of the country requesting the surrender, because it is authorized to try and punish them.

In Indonesia itself, extradition is considered a bilateral agreement that can also be considered as a form of implementation of the principle of reciprocity, which is the principle of international relations in law international law. Extradition cooperation is carried out so that criminals can no longer flee to other countries that have been involved in cooperation in extradition agreements. This is because usually, criminals flee or hide in other countries that are not the country where they committed the crime, with the aim of not being tried because the country where they are located does not have the authority to try their crime. To avoid the attitude of criminals who do not want to be responsible and run away, there should be a surrender or extradition of the perpetrators of crimes to the country where they committed the crime to be held accountable for their actions.