Restorative Justice in Traffic Crime Settlement

Abstract

Restorative justice as an alternative settlement of criminal acts is applied in Indonesia as an effort to reform the law. Restorative justice is an approach that focuses more on the conditions for creating justice and a balance between the perpetrators of crimes and the victims. In an effort to resolve cases of traffic accidents, legal certainty should indeed be applied to the perpetrators of traffic accidents cross. But the last accident case traffic with certain considerations is often resolved by the police in outside the judiciary through mediation efforts with the principle of Restorative Justice as a solution. Type Research this is descriptive analytical, namely research that describes and describes the situation or facts that exist with approach method used that is method normative juridical. Based on the results of the study, the answers to the formulation of the problem were obtained, namely traffic crimes cases in the jurisdiction of the Palangka Raya City Police, which have resolved traffic crime cases through restorative justice, but there are some cases that cannot be handled through restorative justice such as the perpetrator fled and the victim or victim's family still objected and proceed to trial. The application of restorative justice in the settlement of traffic crimes at the Palangka Raya Police since year 2019-2021 total approximately half of the total traffic crime cases.