The Legal Aspect of New Normal and the Corruption Eradication in Indonesia

ABSTRACT

Article 1 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution mandates that Indonesia is a state by rule of law. Therefore, in carrying out the life of the people and of the nation, it must be in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations. The current presence and development of Covid-19 pandemic has resulted changes in political, economic, social, and cultural sectors. Paying attention to these developments, the Indonesian Government has issued various policies. The focuses of the policies are intended to manage the Covid-19 spread. The policies, among others, include social assistance programs during the Covid-19 pandemic, which has a significant potential corruption. The corruption may happen in the forms of embezzlement of aid funds, budgets transfer, incompliance of requirement assistances, etc. This study aims to determine aspects of the new normal law and the corruption eradication in Indonesia based on normative juridical research methods. The approach looks, analyzes, and interprets theoretical aspects concerning legal principles in the form of conceptions, laws and regulations, views, legal doctrines, and related legal systems. This study is of the opinion that the corruption eradication (prevention and enforcement) in Indonesia during the Covid-19 pandemic and the application of the new normal are necessary to reform criminal law. The reform can be reconstruction and reformulation of existing laws regarding sanctions applied to perpetrators of corruption to restore state finances with accountability up to the third degree, or impoverishment of corruptors. © 2020, Padjadjaran University. All rights reserved.