This legal research entitled The Implementation of Legal Protection to the
Victims in Process of Criminal Trial of Corruption. This background of this research
was, the victims have not been protected in providing information either before the
investigator or the court, in particularly the reporting witness of which submit report
of the existence of criminal action of corruption.
The emerging case was the position of victim as the verifying materials that
hold important role in the verification process of a trial of criminal action of
corruption, thus it causes the witness should be legally protected. How is the shape
and practice of protection of which is given to the witness in the case of corruption
criminal action and what barriers make the witness difficult to gain legal protection.
In this legal writing, the author used normative juridical research method and
sociological juridical method, wherein data analysis used was descriptive and
qualitative methods, i.e. collected data will behalf as sources in drawing conclusion if
the implementation of protection to the victim has been conducted appropriately to
the theoretical principles of valid laws.
The result of author’s research is that up to now the implementation of
protection to the witness has not been conducted optimally, although there has been
any legal shield protecting to the victim.