This study aims to analyze the legal politics of Indonesia's criminal justice system from the perspective of contemporary constitutional law and to formulate the direction of its transformation toward a democratic, accountable, and substantively just system. The study employs a normative-doctrinal legal method with statutory, conceptual, and case approaches. Legal materials were collected through systematic library research and analyzed qualitatively using legal interpretation, norm synchronization, legal construction, and deductive reasoning techniques. The findings reveal that Indonesia's criminal justice legal politics faces three mutually reinforcing structural deficits: a regulatory deficit stemming from disharmony among statutes, an integration deficit arising from institutional fragmentation among the police, prosecution, judiciary, and correctional subsystems, and an oversight deficit due to weak checks and balances mechanisms. A comparative analysis with Germany and the Netherlands demonstrates a significant gap in due process implementation and constitutional rights protection. Transformation must prioritize regulatory harmonization, strengthening the integrated criminal justice system, and establishing independent oversight mechanisms to ensure Indonesia's criminal justice system genuinely delivers constitutional justice for all citizens.
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