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Law enforcement plays a vital role in building a just, reliable, and corrupt-free criminal system. The success of the criminal system is highly dependent on the integrity of law enforcement officers, from the police, prosecutors, to the judiciary. This article discusses how consistent, transparent, and accountable law enforcement can increase public trust and minimize the potential for abuse of power. Through a normative and legal approach, this paper emphasizes the importance of institutional reform and legal culture in order to create a clean and just criminal system. This article critically examines the strategic role of law enforcement officials in building public trust through a transparent, accountable and integrity judicial system. Using a normative juridical approach and analysis of empirical data, this research highlights various challenges faced, such as weak integrity of the apparatus, political intervention, and a legal culture that is permissive of violations. This paper also emphasizes the importance of institutional reform, strengthening protection for justice collaborators and whistleblowers, and utilizing digital technology in order to encourage legal accountability.

Justice collaborators play an important role in law enforcement. The role or function of a justice collaborator includes disclosing a criminal act or the impending occurrence of a criminal act, so that the return of assets resulting from criminal acts can be achieved to the state, providing information to law enforcement officials, providing testimony in the judicial process. The aim of this research is to analyze the legal position of justice collaborators in the criminal justice legal system in Indonesia. This research uses a type of normative juridical research by analyzing primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials. The results of the research are that the legal position of justice collaborator has a very important role in uncovering a well-organized criminal act, or a particular criminal case, so that the suspect or defendant's request to become a justice collaborator must be granted. considered based on the evidence at trial in this case. It is within the judge's authority to grant the justice collaborator's request, because this will affect the sentence. In conclusion, justice collaborators are not regulated in the criminal procedural law book in Indonesia, but are regulated in Law Number 31 of 2014 concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims, as well as Joint Regulations for Law Enforcement Officials and Witness and Victim Protection Institutions concerning Protection of Witnesses and Victims. Complainant, Reporting Witness and Perpetrator Witness Working Together.

The world history of Justice Collaborators began in 1963 when the United States federal government awarded facilities or awards to a winner named Joe Cago. Cago was a member of a criminal organization whose members were Italian immigrants or descendants of Italians living in the country. The reason is, every member of this criminal organization who is arrested will still uphold omerta, or the culture of silence in the mafia network, and they never leak information about their organization to the authorities, making it difficult for the authorities. The research method used is normative juridical. The use of this type of normative juridical research is because the object of study is related to legal principles and principles as well as theories and opinions of legal experts. Criminal Law that include Justice Collaborators in criminal activities are inadequate, so that law enforcement officials cannot legally rely on this system. It turns out that there are many things that need to be set aside to achieve justice collaborator status, in terms of relevance. Many legal experts have expressed the same thing, the use of justice collaborator status is only to show appreciation for criminals who actively participate in cases that are difficult to prove.

A justice collaborator are suspect, defendants or convicts but work together with law enforcement officials to provide information in uncovering criminal acts that have occurred. The aim of the research is to analyze the legal protection of justice collaborators in terms of Law 31/2014. This study uses normative legal research methods with qualitative data. The results of the study show that (1) Legal protection for justice collaborators in terms of Law Number 31 of 2014 explained in article 5 that law enforcement officials have the obligation to provide protection and assistance to justice collaborator from legal entities so that they feel safe from threats which will come. (2) Legal protection for justice collaborators in terms of five basic principles or commonly called Maqashid Asy-Syariah which can be concluded that Islam highly upholds the protection of human rights, which in this case is legal protection for justice collaborators who have important services in helping officials Law enforcers uncover a crime.