Restorative Justice Gaining Support In AGO's New Regulation

The Attorney General's Office ("AGO") recently enacted the Attorney General's Regulation No. 15 of 2020 on the Discontinuation of Prosecution based on Restorative Justice. Before this, the Indonesian National Police has already adopted the concept of restorative justice through the Criminal Investigation Regulation (Chief of Police Regulation No. 6 of 2019). But its application was limited to only the investigation stage.

Now, the new AGO regulation takes the concept further by also allowing a prosecution to be dismissed based on restorative justice. Together with the Criminal Investigation Regulation, it essentially turns restorative justice into a path to avoid a criminal conviction, placing it as the last resort.