Posts with tag: KUHAP

The new KUHAP: easier to investigate, easier to convict (Part 2 of 2)

Indonesia now has a procedural code that makes it considerably easier to designate, arrest, detain and convict critics. The new Code now stands as a looming deterrent to anyone with the tenacity to push back.

The new KUHAP: more kinds of evidence, fewer limits (Part 1 of 2)

Analysis, Highlights, Law

On 2 January 2026, Indonesia’s new Code of Criminal Procedure (Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Acara Pidana, or KUHAP) came into force. The government has presented it as a historic break with a colonial and authoritarian past.

Talking Indonesia: the new Criminal Code

Talking Indonesia

On 2 January 2026, Indonesia entered what officials are calling a 'new era' of criminal justice. The country implemented a new Criminal Code (Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Pidana, KUHP) and a new Criminal Procedure Code (Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Acara Pidana, KUHAP), which changed what constitutes a crime and how crimes are identified, investigated, and punished.

Draconian and illiberal: Indonesia’s new KUHAP is worse than the old one

Analysis, Human Rights, Law

The law retains a structural flaw that has existed since the that Criminal Procedure Code was introduced in 1981: the absence of robust judicial oversight in Indonesia’s legal system.

Indonesia’s prison overcrowding crisis: Criminal Code delay a chance to fix it?

Analysis, Law

While the draft revised criminal code was widely criticised for its potential to lead to over-criminalisation, M Doddy Kusadrianto writes that it also contained progressive approaches to sentencing that could have helped tackle prison overcrowding.