Legal Protection for Justice Collaborator in Revealing Criminal Act Cases in Courts

. Justice collaborators play a paramount role in dismantling and eradicating crimes. There are several existing forms of legal protection provided to justice collaborators such as the reduction of the prison term given by the Panel of Judges, and special protection against threats or intimidation directed at him or his family. This study was aimed to investigate the forms of legal protection for justice collaborators, requirements for a perpetrator to be categorized as a justice collaborator and benefits for the perpetrator if he is willing to be a justice collaborator. The research method used is descriptive analysis method, the systematic exposure of a fact or reality through a normative juridical approach. The results showed that the legal protection for a justice collaborators are imposing special conditional probation penalties and imposing the lightest prison sentence of any other defendants who are proven guilty in the case. The requirements for a perpetrator to become a justice collaborator are (1) be one of the perpetrators of a certain criminal acts, but not the main perpetrator (2) willing to provide comprehensive information in the judicial process.