Protection against a charge witness creates broad impacts in law maintenance
specially on coruption casses. With such consideration, this thesis attempts to
observe whether the regulation on witness protection law for people has been
applied. This study using normative-literature method that is based on data
collection from library research on legal protection to witness and its applied in
Indonesia. This study also applies statute approach, using the applied
law/regulation, printed media articles, internet, experts’ opinion on subject studied
as well as secondary data. Analysis was conducted to several regulations on legal
protection to witness, such as Law No 13/2006. This study concluded that Law
No 13/2006 has been applied, but still many obstacle such as not enough budget
and less information about witness protection provided by goverment. This study
also recomend to apply the law witness protection law consistently.