Election Criminal Law Enforcement in the Era of Simultaneous General Election 2019

Abstract

This thesis addressed the issue of election criminal law enforcement in the era of simultaneous general election in 2019. Based on data released by The General Election Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) there were 2,724 reports and findings of alleged violations of election crimes, which continued with the investigation of 582 cases, closed at the investigation stage there were 132 cases, then closed at prosecuting 41 cases, and ajudicated by the court in 319 cases. Meanwhile, based on the Indonesian Legal Roundtable (ILR) data from the whole cases in electoral crime, 170 cases or 53% were sentenced to conditional or probation. The method of this research is used normative legal research methods (normative juridical). Data research compiled based on suited laws and regulations through statutory approach, case approach, historical approach, comparative approach, and conceptual approach. Furthermore, normatively the data is analyzed based on applicable regulations as positive legal norms by interpreting and constructing statements contained in documents and applicable laws. The results of this study are to reveal and analyze the law enforcement applied in handling election crimes that occurred in simultaneous general elections in 2019. Analyzing the formulation of criminal law in tackling more effective general election crimes for the future through the formulation definite regulations, fair, not multi-interpreted and attend to all parties in equal rights of each individual before the law in order to establish a general election which honest and fair as well as legitimate