The Effectiveness of the Prosecutor's Role in Enforcing Corruption Criminal Laws

Abstract

In taking care of criminal demonstrations of debasement, examiners go about as specialists and furthermore as open examiners. The exploration strategy utilized is regularizing research with a standardizing juridical methodology. The information utilized is auxiliary information acquired from writing and regulation examinations. The viability of the Examiner's Office is appeared by the progress in completing preventive measures and making a move against criminal demonstrations of debasement in 2014, in total 1,365 cases at the investigation stage and 1,756 cases at the prosecution stage. Meanwhile, success in recovering state losses due to corruption was achieved in 2014 up to Rp. 495,729,718,504, -which was saved and amounting to Rp. 278,409,157,946.08 and US$ 56,252.03 which was recovered. This success proves the effectiveness of the Prosecutor's Office in eradicating criminal acts of corruption and recovering state losses due to corruption. The effectiveness of the Prosecutor's Office in general has not been able to eradicate corruption as expected by the public, indicating that corruption has not been reduced, but in particular the success of the Prosecutor's Office is the contribution of the Prosecutor's Office in enforcing the law, especially in reducing the number of corruption crimes in Indonesia.