Implications of Revision of Law No. 19 of 2019 concerning the Corruption Eradication Commission for Handling Corruption

Abstract

A constitutional system is an independent state institution that does not belong to any power family (executive, legislative and judicial). However, after the issuance of Law No. 19 of 2019, the institutional format of the KPK changed to become part of the executive family. The author uses a descriptive type of research, which aims for researchers to explain about a legal event or legal situation. By using qualitative analysis methods. In this study, the authors analyze more related to the Revision of the KPK law that has affected the authority of the KPK KPK investigators can no longer conduct wiretapping, search and confiscation without prior permission from the KPK Supervisory Board. This is what makes the position of the KPK ambivalent in the constitutional system, on the one hand the KPK is part of the executive family on the other hand the KPK is independent. The shift in the position of the KPK to become part of the executive clump has implications for the limited space for the KPK in efforts to eradicate corruption, which has the potential to receive various interventions, especially from the executive realm.