Siber Nusantara of Law and Politic Review (SNLPR)
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026): Siber Nusantara of Law and Politic Review (October 2025 - March 2026 )

Construction of Legal Reform of The Transfer of Foreign Citizen Drug Crime Inmates to Their Home Countries Based on Aspects of Legal Certainty

Rusman Rusman (Universitas Borobudur, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Faisal Santiago (Universitas Borobudur, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Tina Amelia (Universitas Borobudur, Jakarta, Indonesia)



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15 Dec 2025

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This article develops a legal-certainty-oriented construction for Indonesia's forthcoming law on the transfer of sentenced persons (TSP), with specific attention to foreign nationals convicted of drug offences. Using a doctrinal legal method legislative, conceptual, and comparative approaches, the paper assesses Indonesia's current baseline (Article 45 of Law No. 22/2022 on Corrections), identifies implementation gaps in the absence of a specific statute, and draws comparative lessons from the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons (ETS No. 112), the EU Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA, and UN guidance (UNODC, International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy). Legal certainty is translated into eleven normative pillars: clear scope and definitions; material and formal requirements with explicit time limits; human-rights safeguards (non-refoulement, prohibition of torture, equality of treatment); designation of a central authority; calculation of remaining sentence and additional penalties; limited procedural review; drug-case-specific safeguards ensuring continuity of rehabilitation; diplomatic coordination and agreements; transparency and data protection; and transitional provisions. The proposed model enhances predictability, proportionality, and inter-jurisdictional consistency while aligning with contemporary human-rights-based drug policy. Policy implications are offered for Indonesia's ongoing legislative process (2023–2025).

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