REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Higher Education Leadership Association of Indonesian Law (HELAL) view that the government has yet to give serious attention to efforts to improve the judicial system and law enforcement in Indonesia. They also urged President Joko Widodo to make a package of legal policy, as well as economic policy package that has risen up to 12 volumes.

Board of Trustees HELAL, Saptomo Ade said Indonesia's long-term roadmap that will be organised by the National Development Planning Agency (NDPA), in which they commented that the economic development of Indonesia in the future should run simultaneously with the construction of the law. However, what happens when the construction of the law runs behind economic development.

"We worry if the economic development is not accompanied by the development of the law, then the direction would be counterproductive," said Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Pancasila, after an audience with President Jokowi at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday (28/6).

According to Ade, in a meeting with the President, they had discussed a number of cases of bribery in the judicial system which was later uncovered. President Jokowi, said, he also have the same anxiety over the abominable law enforcement in Indonesia.

However, as a state institution, the President should not intervene in matters of law. Therefore, according to Ade, the President asked HELAL to help the government to formulate a policy package of laws to complete the package of economic policies that are already running.

"He asked us to compile the technical stages to reform policies as well to bring our packages of laws," he said.

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