Overview

On Tuesday, 6 December 2022, Indonesia’s House of Representatives (Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat – “DPR”) finally passed the Bill on Criminal Law Code (“Bill”),  which will ultimately replace the currently implemented and now century-old Criminal Law Code (“KUHP”).[1] Indonesia’s Minister of Law and Human Rights, Yasonna H. Laoly, has described the passing of the Bill as an important milestone in Indonesia’s legal history, as the long-awaited national criminal code means that Indonesia will no longer utilize the current KUHP, a colonial byproduct that the country has used for 104 years since 1918.[2]