Restorative Justice Application as an Alternative Completion of the Criminal Matters

Abstract

The existence of Restorative Justice in the Criminal Justice System in Indonesia based on the law of progressive legal thought that the concept of "best law" should be put in the context of integration that is integral (holistic) in understanding human problems. The law is for man and not vice versa. Based on it, the birth of the law is not for himself, but for something more spacious, namely; for human dignity, happiness, prosperity and glory of man, when there is a problem in the law, then it is the law that should be reviewed and improved, not man pushed to be included in the legal scheme. not the purpose of human law, but the law is just a tool. So that substantive justice will take precedence than procedural justice, it is merely in order to show the law is a solution for human problems.