SIGn Journal of Social Science
Vol 6 No 2: Desember 2025 - Mei 2026

Procedural Restrictions on Money Laundering Investigation in the Tax Sector under the Regime of Law Number 20 of 2025

Agussalim A. Gadjong (Universitas Muslim Indonesia, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 May 2026

Abstract

This research analyzes the implications of the enactment of coercive measure procedural restrictions on the independence of the DGT Investigator under the regime of Law Number 20 of 2025. This normative-doctrinal legal research employs a statute and conceptual approach to evaluate retrospective performance for the 2020 to 2024 period and project the impact of the new Law post-January 2, 2026. The research results indicate that the decline in historical case dossier settlement rates was purely caused by internal technical-cyber constraints, rather than a normative authority weakness. However, the new Criminal Procedure Code unification fundamentally degrades sectoral independence through the revocation of independent arrest and detention authority, centralized Police subordination triggering structural transactional risks, and an absolute competence dispute with the Attorney General’s Office that contradicts the ultimum remedium principle. To overcome this procedural stagnation, the DGT formulated an administrative bypass strategy. This tactic shifts the law enforcement focus to the non-coercive Preliminary Evidence Examination phase through the exploitation of forensic digital evidence and the independent exchange of international beneficial owner information. This research recommends legislative reconstruction to restore equal horizontal institutional relations, affirm absolute competence boundaries, expand the non-conviction-based confiscation mechanism, and accelerate the establishment of specialized tax cyber units in regional areas to guarantee national fiscal resilience.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

sjss

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Subject

Social Sciences

Description

SIGn Journal of Social Science is a scientific publication published every June – November and December – May. The published article is the result of selection with a double-blind review system. SIGn Journal of Social Science accepts manuscripts in the form of research results, theoretical ...