Ada satu kata penting yang kadang terlupa dipakai ketika membuat berita tentang hukum atau kriminalitas.
Ada satu kata penting yang kadang terlupa, atau bahkan sering kali terlupa,ketika membuat berita tentang hukum atau kriminalitas. |
Perhatikan
kalimat berikut: Badu ditangkap polisi karena mencuri beras dari rumah
tetangga. Atau kalimat ini: Komisi antikorupsi menangkap pejabat di
Kementerian Perminyakan karena menggelapkan uang negara.
Sekilas tidak ada yang salah dalam kalimat-kalimat tersebut sampai ada pembahasan tentang asas praduga tak bersalah.
Berdasarkan asas ini seseorang baru dinyatakan bersalah setelah ada vonis hakim yang memiliki kekuatan hukum tetap.
Itu
berarti ketika seseorang ditangkap dan diinterogasi aparat penegak
hukum, kejahatan yang disangkakan kepadanya masih bersifat dugaan.
Itu
makanya ada istilah dakwaan, terdakwa, disangka, dan tersangka di dunia
hukum. Belakangan media makin sering memakai kata terduga, misalnya
untuk menyebut terduga teroris.
Terbuka kemungkinan ketika
kasusnya diadili hakim memutuskan bahwa ia tidak bersalah, bisa karena
argumen jaksa lemah atau tidak ada bukti yang meyakinkan.
Dalam
konteks inilah perlunya menyelipkan kata ‘diduga’, sehingga contoh di
atas menjadi: Badu ditangkap polisi karena diduga mencuri beras dari
rumah tetangga dan Komisi antikorupsi menangkap pejabat di Kementerian
Perminyakan karena diduga menggelapkan uang negara.
Kata 'diduga'
juga mencegah wartawan untuk menghindari penghakiman atas seseorang atau
beberapa pihak, baik karena kesengajaan maupun tidak.
ENGLISH
There is one important word that is sometimes forgotten is used when making the news about the law or criminality.
There is one important word that is sometimes forgotten, or even often times forgotten, when making the news about the law or criminality.
Consider the following sentence: Badu arrested for stealing rice from the neighboring house. Or this sentence: Anti-corruption Commission officials in the Ministry of Petroleum arrest for embezzling state funds.
At first glance there is nothing wrong in these sentences until there is discussion about the presumption of innocence.
Based on this principle a new person is found guilty after a verdict is legally enforceable.
That means when a person is arrested and interrogated by law enforcers, to her alleged crime is still conjectural.
That is why there is the term charges, accused, suspected, and the suspect in the legal world. Lately the media more frequently use the word unexpected, for example, to refer to suspected terrorists.
It is possible when the case was tried by judges decided that he was not guilty, the prosecution could not because the argument is weak or there is no conclusive evidence.
In this context the need to slip the word 'allegedly', so the example above becomes: Badu arrested by police for allegedly stealing rice from a neighbor's house and arrest anti-corruption commission officials in the Ministry of Petroleum for allegedly embezzling state funds.
The word 'allegedly' is also prevented journalists to avoid the judgment of a person or party, whether willful or not.
There is one important word that is sometimes forgotten, or even often times forgotten, when making the news about the law or criminality.
Consider the following sentence: Badu arrested for stealing rice from the neighboring house. Or this sentence: Anti-corruption Commission officials in the Ministry of Petroleum arrest for embezzling state funds.
At first glance there is nothing wrong in these sentences until there is discussion about the presumption of innocence.
Based on this principle a new person is found guilty after a verdict is legally enforceable.
That means when a person is arrested and interrogated by law enforcers, to her alleged crime is still conjectural.
That is why there is the term charges, accused, suspected, and the suspect in the legal world. Lately the media more frequently use the word unexpected, for example, to refer to suspected terrorists.
It is possible when the case was tried by judges decided that he was not guilty, the prosecution could not because the argument is weak or there is no conclusive evidence.
In this context the need to slip the word 'allegedly', so the example above becomes: Badu arrested by police for allegedly stealing rice from a neighbor's house and arrest anti-corruption commission officials in the Ministry of Petroleum for allegedly embezzling state funds.
The word 'allegedly' is also prevented journalists to avoid the judgment of a person or party, whether willful or not.
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