The Crucial Role of Justice Collaborators in the Disclosure of Legal Facts in Corruption Cases

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the disclosure of legal facts in cases of corruption through the crucial role of justice collaborator. This study uses a prescriptive normative research type. The research approach uses a statutory approach and a case approach. Based on the interpretation of Article 1 paragraph (1) of Law No. 13 of 2006 in conjunction with Law No. 31 of 2014 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims, perpetrator witnesses are in three types of scope, namely as suspects, defendants and convicts. Thus, someone who can be said to be a justice collaborator is the determinant which is regulated in Article 55 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code and in number 9 SEMA No. 04 of 2011 concerning the Treatment of Criminal Whistleblowers (Whistleblowers) and Witnesses of Cooperating Perpetrators (Justice Collaborators). The contribution of the witness of a justice collaborator in uncovering corruption cases is the ability to provide information for other offenders and engage in revealing legal facts.