<![CDATA[The Victims’ Endowment Fund is a funding scheme established to guarantee the realization of victims’ rights to recovery. Its regulation under the 2025 Criminal Procedure Code and the 2026 Witness and Victim Protection Law demonstrates the state’s commitment to strengthening victim protection; however, the regulations still lack comprehensive provisions concerning its management and disbursement mechanisms. The present study seeks to examine the regulation concerning the Victims’ Endowment Fund under Indonesian law and its management and disbursement mechanisms to ensure victims’ rights to recovery. This study uses a normative juridical approach based on statutory and conceptual perspective. The results show that the 2025 Criminal Procedure Code and the 2026 Witness and Victim Protection Law have established the legal and institutional foundations for the Victims’ Endowment Fund, but have not comprehensively regulated the procedures for application, verification, determination, and disbursement of funds, as well as the criteria for determining an offender’s inability to pay restitution. Therefore, implementing regulations are needed to provide clear guidance for law enforcement authorities while ensuring legal certainty, justice, and utility, so that the Victims’ Endowment Fund can be implemented effectively to guarantee victims’ rights to recovery.]]>
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