Indonesia’s Criminal Justice System on Trial

IF 0.4 Q2 Social Sciences New Criminal Law Review Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1525/NCLR.2021.24.1.3
S. Butt
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This article discusses flaws of Indonesia’s criminal procedural laws through an analysis of the Jessica Wongso case. After a televised trial in 2016, Wongso was convicted of murdering her friend Salihin, by putting cyanide in her coffee at a Jakarta café, and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. The conviction was upheld on appeal in late 2018. The police obtained very limited evidence against Wongso, leaving prosecutors unable to determine the cause of Salihin’s death, much less to prove convincingly that Wongso was the perpetrator. By contrast, the defense mustered significant exculpatory evidence. But the judges, at first instance and on appeal, took an uncritical view of the prosecution evidence and ignored the defense case. Throughout the investigation and trial, Wongso was not accorded the presumption of innocence, partly because of Indonesia’s flawed or absent formal legal infrastructure for arrests, detentions, searches, and disclosure of prosecution evidence to the defense. It is also because highly prejudicial press coverage before and during trials is not prohibited and because judges lack professionalism. All this suggests a strong need for reform—not only to Indonesia’s criminal procedure law, but also to the way it is applied in practice.
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印度尼西亚刑事司法系统的审判
本文通过对Jessica Wongso案的分析,探讨了印尼刑事诉讼法的缺陷。在2016年的一次电视审判后,旺索被判在雅加达一家咖啡馆谋杀她的朋友萨利赫因(Salihin),在她的咖啡中加入氰化物,并被判处20年监禁。2018年底,该判决在上诉中得到维持。警方获得的指控Wongso的证据非常有限,使检察官无法确定Salihin的死因,更无法令人信服地证明Wongso就是凶手。相比之下,辩方收集了重要的无罪证据。但是,法官们在一审和上诉中,对控方的证据采取了不加批判的看法,而忽视了辩方的案件。在整个调查和审判过程中,Wongso没有获得无罪推定,部分原因是印度尼西亚在逮捕、拘留、搜查和向辩方披露控方证据方面存在缺陷或缺乏正式的法律基础设施。还有一个原因是,在审判之前和审判期间,没有禁止带有高度偏见的新闻报道,而且法官缺乏专业精神。所有这些都表明,印尼不仅需要对刑事诉讼法进行改革,而且需要对其在实践中的应用方式进行改革。
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期刊介绍: Focused on examinations of crime and punishment in domestic, transnational, and international contexts, New Criminal Law Review provides timely, innovative commentary and in-depth scholarly analyses on a wide range of criminal law topics. The journal encourages a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches and is a crucial resource for criminal law professionals in both academia and the criminal justice system. The journal publishes thematic forum sections and special issues, full-length peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, and occasional correspondence.
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