Abstract


 
 
 
 Human life is inseparable from the problems to overcome this we need a rule that can prevent and impose sanctions on people who do things that are not in accordance with applicable norms or ethics. The law governing the protection of witnesses and victims as stated in the state sheet which is the Republic of Indonesia Law No. 31 of 2014 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims. During this time many criminal cases have never been touched by the legal process. The purpose of this thesis is finding out the legal protection of witnesses and reporters in revealing narcotics criminal acts by the Pekanbaru City Police and know the effort to overcome the legal protection barriers to witnesses and reporters in revealing criminal acts by the Pekanbaru City Police.
 
 
 
 
 This type of research can be classified with research classified into sociological juridical research where the research examines the effectiveness of the law that is in force. From the research result, it is found that, first in protecting the rights of witnesses and victims, the government established an institution called the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK). Protection of witnesses and/or victims is declared to remain valid as long as it does not conflict with Article 44 of Law Number 13 year 2006 concerning protection of witnesses and victims. Second, the obstacles that occur are physical and psychological threats as well as criminalization efforts againts witnesses and victims or their families that make them afraid to give testimony before the court.

Highlights

  • Indonesia is a state of law (Rechstaat) that upholds the law, the law is manifested in regulations in the form of laws and arranged systematically in certain codifications or compilations

  • Legal Protection of Witnesses and Reporters in Exposing Narcotics Crimes by Pekanbaru City Police Every community gets a lot of information about various crime incidents, both obtained from mass media and electronic media

  • This request was not necessarily approved, because based on the provisions of Article 5 paragraph (2) of Law Number 13 on Witness and Victim Protection, the head of the LPSK conducted a study of a particular case and was stated in the LPSK decision

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Introduction

Indonesia is a state of law (Rechstaat) that upholds the law, the law is manifested in regulations in the form of laws and arranged systematically in certain codifications or compilations. The process of proving or convicting a criminal act that occurs must be based on applicable laws In this increasingly advanced era, human life is inseparable from the problems to be faced and humans cannot avoid it. Many problems that arise as a result of human behavior who want to do something in accordance with their desires but violate the rules or norms that apply in social life. To overcome this we need a rule that can prevent and impose sanctions on people who do things that are not in accordance with applicable norms or ethics. One of the positive laws in the community is the law governing the protection of witnesses and victims as stated in the gazette which is the Republic of Indonesia State Law Number 31 of 2014 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims

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