Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on the credibility of the performance of law enforcement. National survey data and reports from various national media found a decline in public trust in law enforcement. With a normative juridical approach and using secondary data, this paper discusses what factors can restore public trust in law enforcement. First, the independence of law enforcement officers to improve the mentality of law enforcement in acting, secondly, it is necessary to develop a transformational bureaucratic leadership model to make changes in the field of services law enforcement in order to increase public trust.
Highlights
Indonesia is a country based on law, not based on mere power which is explicitly explained in Article 1 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution (UUD)
This can happen because of the lack of readiness of the state to provide legal aid on a free or low cost basis or because of inadequate legislation. That it creates cynicism in society and can result in the emergence of judges' decisions that do not fulfill the community's sense of justice (Rompis, 2015). This results in a decrease in public trust in law enforcement because public trust is indirectly directly proportional to law enforcement
The law enforcement process has a wider dimension than this opinion, because law enforcement will involve the dimensions of human behavior (Fakrulloh, 2005)
Summary
Indonesia is a country based on law (rechtsstaat), not based on mere power (machtsstaat) which is explicitly explained in Article 1 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution (UUD). As for the legal structure according to Abdurrahman (1987), namely the driving element, so that legal institutions can work and clearly This is in line with what is explained in Article 28 D paragraph 1 of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia that "Everyone has the right to recognition, guarantee, protection and fair legal certainty and equal treatment before the law". These duties and functions are the basis for the emergence of public trust in law enforcement. Character of both law enforcement and their organizations can run according to their duties and functions in the law and focus on enforcing corruption and human rights cases
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