Constitutional Guarantees Towards the Principles of Freedom and Independence of the Prosecutor's Office in the Exercise of State Power

This normative legal research examines the constitutional guarantee of implementing the principle of independence by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia as an institution implementing state power in law enforcement. A previous study by Kindangen (2021) also discusses the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office, but from the perspective of prosecutorial authority. Unlike this previous study, this study examines the independence of the Prosecutor’s Office as an implementing agent of state power, particularly from the perspective of trias politica. In contrast, the previous study emphasised the Prosecutor’s Office. For foreign readers, this study provides a description and reference regarding the position of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Indonesia, which can be used for organising an independent Prosecutor’s Office in other countries. The study results show that although the Prosecutor’s Office is categorised as an implementing agent of state power in the legal field with the principle of independence, its existence is not explicitly regulated in the Constitution. Ideally, the provision of the principle of independence to the Prosecutor’s Office must be balanced with constitutional guarantees so that it is not easily intervened in by any institution, especially the executive or legislative bodies. Therefore, the position of the Prosecutor’s Office should also be used as part of the material content of the Constitution.