November 25, 2025 | 10:07 am
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Deputy Minister of Law Edward Omar Sharif Hiariej made a request to his counterparts in Commission III of the House of Representatives (DPR) during a meeting on the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP) revision on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Eddy Hiariej—as the Gadjah Mada University professor is known—asked the lawmakers in charge of legal issues not to take further issue with articles concerning coordination between the police and the prosecution.
“Please do not tamper with the chapter on coordination between police investigators and public prosecutors,” Eddy told Tempo in Kuningan, South Jakarta, on Wednesday, November 19. He said the articles dividing authority between police and prosecutors had already been resolved within a government-formed team. He also encouraged both institutions to set aside institutional ego in handling cases.
The meeting between the Ministry of Law and Commission III in early November was part of a series of discussions preceding the ratification of the revised KUHAP on Tuesday, November 18. Several sources involved in drafting the legislation said the government and the House had actually completed deliberations in early July. But mounting protests over the content of the bill delayed its enactment.
Criticism came from civil society organizations, including the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI). YLBHI Chair Muhammad Isnur explained that the KUHAP revision process lacked transparency. “We struggled to access the draft,” he said on Monday, November 17.
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