PENERAPAN KONSEP RESTORATIVE JUSTICE DALAM SISTEM PERADILAN PIDANA INDONESIA

Abstract

The criminal justice system in force in Indonesia is fundamentally oriented toward retributive justice, which emphasizes the imposition of punishment on offenders. However, this orientation is considered insufficient to fully realize the sense of justice that lives and develops within society. The process of criminal law enforcement tends to pay limited attention to the interests of victims, resulting in the failure to optimally achieve the expected justice. This condition has encouraged the emergence of the concept of restorative justice, which focuses on harmonizing the interests of victim recovery and offender accountability, particularly through the resolution of certain criminal cases by means of non-custodial measures. The issues examined in this study consist of two aspects. First, an understanding of the concept of restorative justice; and second, the legal basis for the implementation of restorative justice within the Indonesian criminal law system. The research method employed is normative legal research, using secondary legal materials obtained through library research. These materials are subsequently analyzed qualitatively in order to draw conclusions.