Practitioner Sharing from the Bogor District Attorney’s Office: “The Role of the Prosecutor’s Office in Prosecution”

Undergraduate Study Program in Law, Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) on December 12-13, 2024 held a practitioner sharing lecture with the theme “Public Prosecutor’s Strategy in Preparing Indictments and Evidence in Trial.” The resource person invited on this occasion was Veronika Oxtafia, S.H., M.M., the Head of the Development Sub-Division, Bogor Regency District Attorney’s Office. This lecture lasted for two days with three meetings and was held in the Legal Drafting Room, 3rd Floor, UII Faculty of Law. The first and second meetings took place on Thursday, December 12, 2024, starting at 10:30–12.00 WIB and continuing at 12.00–13.00 WIB. The third meeting took place on Friday, December 13, 2024, starting at 08:45 to 10.20 WIB. This Practitioner Sharing lecture is mandatory for Class I Criminal Procedure Law students and is moderated by Wahyu Priyanka Nata Permana, S.H., M.H., an expert lecturer in Criminal Procedure Law, Faculty of Law UII.

In the first and second meetings, the resource person explained more material, while in the third meeting, students were invited to interact more by discussing a case study related to the role of the prosecutor’s office in terms of comprehensiveness. The prosecutor’s office is a state institution that has special authority in the field of filing. In the criminal system, the role of the prosecutor’s office is very neutral, especially in terms of the process of enforcing criminal law. The prosecutor’s office in this case acts as a representative of the state to prosecute perpetrators of criminal acts and ensure that justice can be upheld. As for packaging, it is a stage in the imaging process, where the prosecutor is in the general process of filing an indictment against a suspect in court.

In his explanation, the resource person explained that “The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia, later referred to as the prosecutor’s office, is a government institution whose function is related to the judicial power that exercises state power in the field of prosecution and other authorities based on the law (Article 1 number 1 of Law No. 11 of 2021 concerning Amendments to Law No. 16 of 2004 concerning the Prosecutor’s Office). In asset recovery, the prosecutor’s office has the authority to conduct tracing, confiscation, and return assets obtained from criminal acts and other assets to the state, victims, or those entitled. As for prosecution, it is an action by the public prosecutor in referring a criminal case to the competent district court in the case and according to the method regulated in this law with a request that it be examined and decided by a judge in a court hearing. In the event that the public prosecutor receives one case file containing several criminal acts committed by several suspects that are not included in the provisions of Article 141, the public prosecutor can prosecute each defendant separately. The indictment itself has valid requirements, namely formal requirements and material requirements.” Here is an explanation from Veronika Oxtafia, S.H., M.M. The event continued with a discussion of case studies, followed by a question and answer session guided by the moderator, and then there was the handover of souvenirs and a group photo with the speakers.