Indonesian Justice System for Election Crimes

Violations of the criminal provisions in the election law give birth to election crimes. For the occurrence of election crimes, the state is obliged to carry out law enforcement efforts. Law enforcement against election crimes is carried out by legal apparatus authorized by the election law, namely the integrated law enforcement center (gakumdu). The integrated law enforcement center consists of the election supervisory body (Bawaslu), the police, and the prosecutor’s office. Election law enforcement is very important, especially in terms of the handling, investigation, prosecution, judicial, and sentencing processes. The law enforcement process is always identical to the current criminal justice system. In law enforcement for election crimes, the characteristics of law enforcement are different from criminal law enforcement in general. The methodology used in this paper uses a descriptive juridical method. Keywords: criminal justice system, election crime, integrated law enforcement center