Equality in Correctional Services

Anyone can commit a general crime. Meanwhile, special skills are needed to commit special crimes or extraordinary crimes. Only certain people can perpetrate them.

KOMPAS/SOELASTRI SOEKIRNO

Residents of Class 1 Adult Correctional Institution (Lapas) Tangerang, Banten.

The decision of the Constitutional Court (MK) on Thursday (30/9/2021) must have hurt the feelings of corruptors, drug traffickers, and terrorists.

The verdict has now made them “normal” criminals. Previously, acts of terrorism, corruption, and drug trafficking were classified as special crimes, even extraordinary crimes. They used to be separate from the perpetrators of theft, extortion, embezzlement, and murder, which fall under general crimes.