Ensure you understand every offence in every article, so you could apply the charge appropriately when the Criminal Code is enforced (in three years)Jakarta (ANTARA) - Attorney General Sanitiar Burhanuddin urged public prosecutors to study the new Indonesian Criminal Code passed by the parliament on December 6.
"Ensure you understand every offence in every article, so you could apply the charge appropriately when the Criminal Code is enforced (in three years)," Burhanuddin stated at the closing ceremony of a public prosecutor training, as per the statement here, Wednesday.
The attorney general said that prosecutors will have three years to study the new Criminal Code, as it will be enforced only in 2025 after being passed by the House of Representatives (DPR RI) this month.
Every public prosecutor's office must organize group discussions and activities by involving academics and practitioners to internalize the new Criminal Code and achieve a common understanding of the code, he emphasized.
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Burhanuddin stressed that as legal practitioners, prosecutors should exhibit their personal quality and capability in developing legal arguments as well as conduct their duty well and familiarize themselves with legal cases.
Only through determination in study and practice, a prosecutor will become familiar with the systematic structure of legal thinking to discover, unravel, and justify covert aspects in a legal event, he underlined.
"Hence, you will have high accuracy in analyzing and resolving a legal issue in society," he said.
The attorney general said that apart from honing cognitive skills, public prosecutors must also improve personal sensitivity while facing legal cases to present humane law enforcement for the people.
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Personal sensitivity will allow public prosecutors to prioritize humanity and conscience in criminal cases with minor losses involving poorer and vulnerable residents, he added.
"Remember, a prosecutor, apart from having critical thinking, is also urged to have a soft sense of humanity," Burhanuddin stated.
He noted that an ideal public prosecutor is one who could combine cognitive capability and personal sensitivity.
"If a prosecutor could combine those aspects simultaneously, certainly, a unified mindset, capacity, and quality of an ideal prosecutor will be realized," the attorney general remarked.
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