THE ESSENCE OF JUSTICE ON JAKARTA HIGH COURT’S VERDICT OF CORRUPTION CASES

Abstract

Justice is abstract. Justice concept has various concept for experts to define about what justice is actually about. Including the essence of justice by the Judges as main actor in the court when adjudicating cases. For example there are two contradictive justice concepts such distributive justice and commutative justice. Distributive justice is a justice about comparison, while commutative justice is a justice about similarity. Corruption cases which done by those who have position in government then abuse their authorities on them and harm the state, will get many attentions from the public through the media mass including their legal procedure for those who are being a defendants in court, such in first level, appeal level even in cassation level. So, this research proposing to elaborates how The Judges of Jakarta High Court considerates legal considerations towards the corruptions cases and implemented the essence of justice in the verdict of Jakarta High Court using normative legal research and makes court verdict, in here Jakarta High Court’s verdict, as a primary law material and Judge of Jakarta High Court’s interview result as secondary law material.