Inp.polri.go.id - Jakarta. President Prabowo Subianto has signed Law No. 1/2026 on Criminal Sentencing Adjustment, officially aligning hundreds of sectoral laws with Indonesia’s new Criminal Code (KUHP) as of Friday (2/1/2026). 

The law reshapes how courts impose penalties, including death sentences, fines, corporate liability, and digital crimes under the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) regime.

Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra said the reform marks a decisive shift in Indonesia’s legal system. 

“We are formally leaving the colonial criminal law system and entering a more humane, modern, and just era of law enforcement,” he said, as quoted by antaranews.com

Under the law, judges must impose the death penalty with a 10-year probation period, allowing conversion to life imprisonment if the convict shows rehabilitation. It also standardizes fine-to-prison conversions, expands corporate penalties, removes minimum sentences for non-extraordinary crimes, and refers ITE offenses directly to the new KUHP to curb overcriminalization.

(mg/inp/pr/rs)