January 3, 2026 | 05:12 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has officially signed the Law on the Adjustment of Criminal Sanctions. The Law Number 1 of 2026 concerning the Adjustment of Criminal Sanctions was signed and ratified by Prabowo in Jakarta on Friday, January 2, 2026.
The policy was enacted and became effective on the same day. This law consists of four chapters, including a concluding chapter, and nine articles. The regulation serves as a legal umbrella that harmonizes the criminal provisions in hundreds of sectoral laws, ensuring compliance with Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code (KUHP), which took effect on January 2, 2026.
"The Criminal Code Law mandates adjustments to all laws outside the Criminal Code Law and Regional Regulations to align with the criminal fine category system," as stated in the explanation clause of the Criminal Sanctions Adjustment Law.
The system aims to eliminate the need to specify the amount of fines when formulating criminal acts. Instead, it will only refer to predetermined fine categories. Adjustments are also needed for criminal provisions that regulate imprisonment sentences. This is because the National Criminal Code no longer considers imprisonment the primary punishment.
Several provisions in the Criminal Code, signed in 2023, still require improvement. Several substance categories still need to be adjusted. These three substance categories include articles formulated with specific and cumulative minimum patterns, substances that need clarification, and formal writing errors.
Previously, in early December 2025, the House of Representatives (DPR) officially ratified the Bill or Draft Law on the Adjustment of Criminal Sanctions into law. The Deputy House Speaker Sufmi Dasco Ahmad gavelled the ratification of the Bill on the Adjustment of Criminal Sanctions during the plenary session held at the DPR Building on Monday, December 8, 2025.
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