RENEWAL OF CRIMINAL LAW FROM PRESPECTIVE LEGAL SEMIOTICS

                    The meaning / meaning that exists in legal reform, is interpreted as legal reform and law reform. When the law is conceptualized as a system, the law will lead to a process for the sake of the law itself. The process to achieve the realization of a new Indonesia is a conscious political process. This process of renewal is known to us as legal reform. Whereas in legal reform, which became Holmes's main point that a judge (every judge) responsible for formulating the law through his decisions, must always be based on true belief, the truth of the statement that the law is not something "omnipresent in the sky" but something always present in concrete situations "to meet the social need".

                    The meaning and nature of criminal law reform is closely related to socio-political aspects, socio-philosophical aspects and socio-cultural aspects or from various aspects of policy, both social policy, criminal policy and law enforcement policy. Thus the renewal of criminal law is an embodiment of changes and renewal of various aspects and policies that underlie the need for renewal of criminal law. From this reality, the renewal of criminal law in essence implies, an attempt to re-orient and reform criminal law in accordance with the socio-political, socio-philosophical, and socio-cultural values ​​of Indonesian people which underlie social policies, criminal policies and law enforcement policies in Indonesia.