CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM RESPONSE TO THE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL OFFENCES: DOES THE SYSTEM WORK FOR THE VICTIM’S BEST INTEREST ?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32662/golrev.v4i2.1745Keywords:
criminal justice system, victim’s rights, sexual offences.Abstract
The high rate of sexual offences committed in Indonesia and low rate of successful conviction is a societal issue. This is not only showed by the failures of law enforcement officials, but by the attitude of the perpetrators as well as the victim themselves. The police occupy a crucial role the handling of sexual assault cases. However, police officers and other criminal justice personnel hold attitudes toward sexual offences that differ from the attitudes of women crisis center workers on many issues, including the causes of sexual offences, whilst the vigor with which police investigate a case partially also depends on their perception of the strength of the evidence. Furthermore, the victim's social network is also important, since someone other than the victim often reports the rape.
This paper aims to examine the development of the Indonesian integrated criminal justice system in responding victim of sexual offences, also to critically analyses the existence of the victim’s support system and the rules within Indonesian criminal justice system.. This paper argues that the social norms and the rules of procedure that support victims’ intentions to report and victim’s support system in Indonesian criminal justice system needs to be strengthened.
The structure of this paper, firstly, to explore the need to provide the victims of sexual offences with substantive and procedural victim’s rights. Second, to elaborate the development of victim support system within the Indonesian integrated criminal justice system. The elaboration will be followed with the critical analyses of the problems that exist in the Criminal Justice System prevailing in Indonesia today, namely based on the Criminal Procedure Code, and criticizing its application that neglecting the rights of victims.Â
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