PERANAN DAN KEDUDUKAN LEMBAGA BANTUAN HUKUM SEBAGAI ACCESS TO JUSTICE BAGI ORANG MISKIN

Abstract

Legal aid is a concept of solution for the needs of society over the idiom of “law sharp down, law blunt up”. The existence of Law Number 16 Year 2011 on the Legal Aid relates to the law reformation agenda of granting the access to justice and the right to fair trial towards Indonesian citizens, among others by giving legal assistance. The method used is normative-empiric, by not only analysing Law Number 16 Year 2011 on the Legal Aid, but also analyse the implementation of Law on Legal Aid and its role in the legal aid institution of giving access to justice. The existence of legal aid institutions are expected to be the new hope in the mid of society in defending their rights before the law, either non-litigation process or litigation process. It is undeniable that the negative stigma of society towards the process of access to justice in Indonesia is very strong and enormous then creates a distrust of Indonesian legal system. The result of the research is the legal aid institutions have a great role in granting access to justice, thus they are not only as new hope of society but also the real evidence of justice towards everyone before the law