The Urgency of Asset Forfeiture Bill in Preventing Corruption Acts as an Effort to Address Structural Poverty in Indonesia

Abstract

According to the Transparency International report, Indonesia has Southeast Asia's 5th highest corruption index. Indonesia has dealt with more than 1,310 corruption cases from 2004 to 2022. Indonesia is also the 73rd poorest country based on the World Population Review. Specifically, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2022, 26.36 million Indonesians were still below the poverty line. The Asset Forfeiture Bill is currently being discussed by the governor and is expected to be able to resolve the structural poverty caused by corruption. This study aims to determine the urgency of the Asset Forfeiture Bill in preventing and dealing with corruption. The type of method used in this research is normative juridical research with a conceptual, statute, and case approach. The legal materials of this research consist of primary and secondary legal materials. The method of collecting legal materials is by taking an inventory of laws and literature that will be analyzed descriptively and prescriptively. The results of this study indicate that the Asset Forfeiture Bill has an impact in providing a deterrent effect on corruptors that will also solve the structural poverty issue in Indonesia.