Legal Policies in Front of Corruption Bill on Treatment of Remission Between Corruptors and Chicken Thieves

Abstract

The type of research used in this research is normative legal research by using primary and secondary legal materials, along with tertiary legal materials as supporting materials. This is by looking at strength and position of Visum Et Repertum evidence in a criminal act. Regarding the granting of remissions for convicts who commit criminal acts of corruption as regulated in Article 34 (A) of PP No.99 of 2012 concerning Terms and Procedures for Implementation Rights of Correctional Inmates, if viewed from theory of purpose of punishment, there are two thoughts in that regard. First, if granting of remissions is associated with one of known punishment theories, it is a relative theory, which emphasizes purpose of punishment to improve the perpetrators of crimes. By being given this punishment, it is hoped that later a criminal can change into a better person and restore the balance that was damaged due to the crime. The second opinion states that the regulations that apply to convicts of corruption have special requirements before getting remission, but actually any conditions that are intended to be used as basis for remission will only hinder the achievement purpose of sentencing. The reason is, corruption which is essentially an economic offense that harms the state and benefits oneself is carried out based on greed, where with remission mechanism there will be calculations that will speed up a convicted corruption person out of prison.