Deconstruction of Police Power: a Political-Legal Analysis of Constitutional Court Decision No. 114/PUU-XXIII/2025
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https://doi.org/10.33474/yur.v9i2.25430Keywords:
Deconstruction of Police Power, Constitutional Court, Civil Supremacy, Legislative Violations, Dual Administrative FunctionAbstract
This study analyzes the political-legal deconstruction of police power through Constitutional Court Decision No. 114/PUU-XXIII/2025. The background to this study is the resurgence of the dual-function model through the administrative infiltration of the police into civilian positions, legitimized by an ambiguous phrase in the Explanatory Notes to Article 28(3) of Law No. 2/2002. Using a normative legal research method with a legislative and conceptual approach, this study examines how this phrase distorts legal policy and unlawfully expands police power, how the Constitutional Court dismantled this deviant power structure, its impact on civil-security relations and the constitutional rights of citizens, as well as the legal reconstruction following the ruling. The findings indicate that the article’s explanatory note constitutes legislative misconduct that enables institutional capture and the erosion of meritocracy. Unlike previous studies by Hasani, Siregar, and Nurmandi, which tended to focus on macro-level reforms of police institutional accountability, this study challenges that literature by specifically demonstrating that Constitutional Court Decision No. 114/PUU-XXIII/2025 serves as an act of judicial resistance. This ruling radically restores a clear constitutional distinction between security and administrative functions of government, protects citizens’ right to equal opportunity within the bureaucracy, and mandates a comprehensive revision of the Indonesian National Police Act to uphold civilian supremacy and the rule of law in a democratic state aspects that have not been addressed in previous studies.
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