The Indonesian Journal of International Clinical Legal Education
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2019): June

The Paradigm Reconstruction of Indonesian Judge's Thought of Law in Adjudicating Criminal Cases

Henny Timira Handayani (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2019

Abstract

The Indonesian Criminal Act Code (Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum Pidana/ KUHP) based on the positivistic paradigm that is directed by principle of legality, as the expression of deductive syllogisms: regulations as a major premise should be filled in by the facts which revealed as the premise minor to conclude the punishment or not. But the positivistic paradigm could not always be complied with changes in Indonesian plural society. The KUHP still applies the theory of monistic. The prove on the entire outline of the criminal element, is proving the existence unlawfulness and at the same time prove the fault/ criminal liability, unless there is a reason the criminal removal. But people demands the new criteria assessment of fairness: 1) liability not only based on fault, but also the material of justification, 2) the criminal act was not only base on formal unlawfulness, but also material unlawfulness, and 3) punishment should fit the balance of people and individual interests. That demand required the judge thought of law other than just of positivistic. This article analyzed the change of Indonesian judges‟ paradigm of thought on criminal law, the causes influenced, and the efforts that could reconstructed the fairness paradigm. This paper used double type of research technics, doctrinal research at once and empirical research, which used data collection techniques of the study of librarianship, observation and interview.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

iccle

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

The journal also supported and supervised by Law Clinics at Faculty of Law Universitas Negeri Semarang, such as Anti-Corruption Law Clinic, Women and Gender Law Clinic, Human Rights Clinic, Employment Law Clinic, Land Law Clinic, Statutory Law Clinic, Environmental Law Clinic, and some Research ...