Existing realities, although already there is a code of ethics and the law on the
prosecutor as the basis or guidelines for prosecutors in performing its duties and
powers but there are still acts violating the code of ethics from an unscrupulous
prosecutor who due to various causes it. So the writer compelled to write a code
of ethics called the prosecutor's relevance to the institution of prosecution attorney
in performing the task. This issue raises the question of whether codes of ethics
are still relevant for use in conducting the prosecution?
The purpose of this study is to determine and find the data were analyzed in an
attempt to answer the legal issues. Benefits from this research can be objective
and subjective benefits, both for the development of legal science in general and
the field of judiciary is the public prosecutor in particular. So also for the high
prosecutor Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta Atma Jaya University, the community and a
writer. The method used by the writer of normative research is focused on the
norms of legislation and literature but also documentation persists field research is
used as support. Primary data sources and methods of secondary data is also
collected data through interviews, literature study, respondents, and also the
method of analysis. Violations of code of conduct undertaken by unscrupulous
attorneys, raises the need to have new arrangements and a separate code of ethics
in order to more effective implementation. So that on July 12 of 2007 established
regulations on codes of conduct that a new prosecutor is the Attorney General of
the Republic of Indonesia Regulation Number: PER-067/A/JA/07/2007. This
regulation was created by Junior Attorney General for Supervision and approved
by the Attorney General as prosecutor behavior code regulations.
The first goal of this new regulation would reduce the rate of offenses
committed by unscrupulous prosecutors, especially in the high judiciary
yogyakarta. The conclusion of this paper is the code of ethics created and intended
for law enforcement, because in the code of ethics contains the noble values.
Therefore, the code of conduct is still very relevant to the prosecutor in
conducting the prosecution duties. And one of the suggestions from the author is a
code of conduct rules prosecutors must be improved, because it could not provide
the deterrent effects for individual prosecutors who commit violations.