Indonesia is a constitutional democracy. The authority of the Constitutional Court in examining and deciding cases of disputes over the results of regional head elections has become an old song worked on by the Constitutional Court itself and the Constitutional Court has often withdrawn and canceled its authority in terms of disputes over the results of regional head elections and caused legal uncertainty related to regional head election issues. Then the Constitutional Court ruled that the articles petitioned by the Respondents were contrary to the 1945 Constitution and had no binding legal force. The Constitutional Court is authorized to hear disputes over the results of regional head elections as long as there is no law regulating this matter. Article 1 of Law No. 22/2017 on Regional Head Elections is included in the Election regime, which is carried out directly, publicly, freely, confidentially, honestly and fairly. It is rumored that the 2024 elections will be the cornerstone of the history of simultaneous national elections. This study aims to determine the role of the constitutional court in resolving direct election disputes and to determine the responsibility of special judicial bodies in direct election disputes.

Artikel ini membahas penerapan asas Lex Favor Reo dalam Pasal 3 KUHP Nasional terhadap putusan yang telah berkekuatan hukum tetap. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis normatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan perlunya mengkualifikasikan perubahan undang-undang yang menguntungkan pelaku sebagai keadaan baru, sehingga syarat peninjauan kembali sebagai upaya hukum luar bisa dapat dilakukan. Keberlakuan asas Lex Favor Reo terhadap putusan yang telah berkekuatan hukum tetap (Inkracht) untuk mewujudkan keadilan dan kemanfaatan hukum itu sendiri karena hukum pidana seharusnya mampu menyesuaikan dengan kondisi perkembangan hukum di masyarakat. Hukum harus selalu memberikan yang mengutamakan hak dari pihak yang berperkara baik seorang pelaku kejahatan maupun korban. Hukum pidana harus sesuai dengan eksistensinya yaitu keadilan dan kemanfaatan hukum itu sendiri sehingga terhadap suatu perubahan undang-undang yang menguntungkan pelaku dapatlah dikategorikan sebagai novum sehingga terwujud novum demi keadilan.

Church’s figures from GKJTU encountered with various legal problems and felt that they didn’t have any knowledge about law. Therefore, an incidental counselling was held to fulfil their desire in purpose to understand legal knowledge so that these figures might resolve legal problems in their environment. The church’s figures give the basic legal knowledge and anti-corruption education through the legal professionals’ trainer. This paralegal training is to equipped participants with better basic-practical legal knowledge to manage the legal problems they faced. By the end of the training, these participants will become the front guard to resolve the legal matters in their environment, as they will be called: paralegals