This research titled legal review of Government Regulation Number 99 Year of
2012 in terms of tightening granting remission to exceptional crimes of
corruption, narcotics and terrorism. This research aims to determine whether the
Government Regulation Number 99 Year of 2012 in terms of tightening granting
remission to exceptional crimes of corruption, narcotics and terrorism against the
principle of equality before the law. The type of research conducted was a
normative legal research, which focuses on the positive legal norms in the form of
legislation. This research was conducted in Class IIA Penitentiary Pakem. The
results showed that the principle of equality before the law should be viewed as
general justice is for the Indonesian people, so the Government Regulation
Number 99 Year of 2012 has reflected the national sense of justice. Government
Regulation Number 99 Year of 2012 in general has reflected the national sense of
justice, however, to note that inmates still have the same rights as other inmates
due to protection by the Indonesian constitution, particularly Article 27, paragraph
(1), 28D paragraph (1) and 28H paragraph (2) of the Constitution of the Republic
of Indonesia in 1945, so that the provisions of Article 34A paragraph 2 in
conjunction with Article 34A, paragraph 1 of Government Regulation No. 99
Year of 2012, which has closed the opportunity for inmates to obtain remission
should be revisited, so as to achieve a sense of justice that approach true justice.