<![CDATA[Reform of criminal procedural law through Law Number 20 of 2025 concerning the Criminal Procedure Code (New Criminal Procedure Code) brings changes to the regulation of legal action and detention. This article analyzes the limits of the public prosecutor's authority in filing appeals and cassation when the defendant's detention period has ended, from the perspective of human rights, legal certainty, proportionality and correctional overcapacity. This research uses normative juridical methods with statutory, conceptual, case and comparative approaches. The research results show that the end of the detention period does not automatically eliminate the public prosecutor's right to file legal action. However, the end of the detention period ends the previous basis for detention, so that detention at the appeal or cassation stage must be based on new authority and determinations in accordance with the New Criminal Procedure Code. Detention without a valid legal basis has the potential to violate the right to freedom and legal certainty. Specifically for acquittal decisions, defendants who are still detained must be released from the moment the decision is pronounced and an acquittal decision cannot be challenged by cassation. Therefore, it is necessary to harmonize norms and strengthen judicial supervision so that legal measures are not misused as a means of maintaining detention and to guarantee the protection of human rights.]]>
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