Revised Criminal Code Approval Takes More than 5 Decades
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17 December 2022 23:51 WIB
As the year turned, the RKUHP team also encountered additions and replacements of members. For example, in 1986, when Prof. Soedarto died, he was soon replaced by Roeslan Saleh.
At that time, the team for the RKUHP agreed not to construct the Criminal Code from scratch, but to re-codify it from the Dutch East Indies Criminal Code. During this journey, Soedarto also asked for the opinion of two of his colleagues from Leiden University, namely Prof. D. Schaffmeister and Prof. N. Keijzer.
Dynamics of RKUHP Formulation
After the RKUHP was formulated more than 30 years since 1963, it was only at the end of 1993 that the head of the RKUHP team at that time, Mardjono Reksodiputro, gave the complete draft of the RKUHP to the government or the Minister of Justice at the time, Ismail Saleh.
However, when Ismail stepped down from his position and was replaced by Oetojo Oesman, it was said that the formulation of RKUHP had not made any progress. In other words, it was suspended, and until 2013, the DPR started discussing the RKUHP intensively.
On June 5, 2015, President Joko Widodo issued a Presidential Letter regarding the readiness of the government to discuss the RKUHP. In that letter, the government agreed that the discussion will take two years or it would complete in 2017. However, the RKUHP was finally approved by the government in 2022, or 7 years later.
If the First National Law Seminar in Semarang in 1963 is counted as the start of the formulation of the RKUHP, then this product of law can be said to be the longest-running law in Indonesian history, more than half a century.
Achmad Hanif Imaduddin | Translator: Intern / Imaji Lasahido
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