The Urgency of Witness and Victim Protection Institutions Against Organized Crime Eradication Through the Role of Whistleblowers

Salundik Salundik (STIH Tambun Bungai Palangka Raya, Indonesia)

Pena Justisia: Media Komunikasi dan Kajian Hukum
Vol. 22 No. 001 (2023): Pena Justisia (Special Issue)

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency is an independent institution established under the law. This institution's role is vital in uncovering organized criminal acts. This writing uses a research method, namely the normative legal method. The discussion in this study will contain, among others, the regulation of LPSK in Indonesia and the protection of LPSK in eradicating organized crime. In protecting witnesses and victims as stipulated in Law No. 13 of 2006, the Witness and Victim Protection Agency still found many weaknesses that hindered the performance of the LPSK. The protection strategy of the LPSK is the existence of forms of protection carried out by the LPSK to witnesses and victims as contained in the law. The protection of witnesses and victims in the criminal justice process in Indonesia has not received a particular role, so the existence of witnesses and victims is indispensable in receiving attention