Safeguarding Court from Economic Capture:

Undue Influence of Wealthy Individuals and Powerful Economic Actors on Indonesia’s Judicial System

Judicial systems in Indonesia have long been under the undue influence of powerful economic actors, especially a small number of wealthy individuals, giant companies, and business association groups. This has become common knowledge, but it is very difficult to prove, makes it a mere speculative, and become rumour. In this article, we try to examine the situation. We identify how undue influence can occur. A number of cases and several courts have characteristics that have a high risk of being under undue influence or even captured by large economic powers as mentioned above. Systematic measures are needed to protect and safeguard the judicial system from undue influence and court capture. This is very urgent as one of our efforts to restore the rule of law in Indonesia.

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