Integration of Customary Law into the Criminal Procedure System through Transcendental-Based Restorative Justice: A Comparative Study of the Utilization of Local Wisdom Instruments
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The integration of Customary Law into the Criminal Procedure System through a Transcendental Approach to Restorative Justice represents a significant legal innovation. It offers a conceptual framework for addressing practical and sociological legal needs. The restorative justice mechanism provides a criminal justice process that is faster, more affordable, and more efficient in resolving criminal cases according to the nature and characteristics of the offense. This mechanism also creates opportunities for legal development by enabling the discovery of law through the manifestation of living law in the conduct of legislators, law enforcement officials, and society, which simultaneously functions as both the subject and the object of law. This paper focuses on a comparative analysis between the technical mechanisms of restorative justice and the characteristics of local wisdom embodied in customary law as a means of resolving community conflicts. Such a comparison is intended to strengthen the theoretical foundation of the sociology of criminal law while promoting a legal framework that is persuasive, responsive, expeditious, cost-effective, and efficient. Furthermore, this study aims to provide a conceptual and speculative framework that may serve as a stimulus for developing hypotheses and examining empirical realities concerning the integration of customary law into the criminal procedure subsystem through a transcendental approach to restorative justice in the resolution of community conflicts. This study employs a descriptive research design grounded in library research, with the collected data analyzed qualitatively.
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