Ethical Challenges and Political Corruption in the 2024 Elections: A Perspective on Dignified Justice

Abstract

This research specifically to analyze the development of political corruption accompanied by ethical problems carried out by judicial institutions, namely Constitutional Court judges in the 2024 election contestation in Indonesia, viewed from the perspective of dignified justice. This research is socio-legal research by prioritizing conceptual, statutory and case approaches. The research results confirm that the practice of political corruption in the 2024 elections can be said to be massive, referring to the symptoms of new totalitarianism, namely the engineering of legal and democratic mechanisms to accommodate the political interests of certain parties. Viewed from the perspective of dignified justice, in holding the 2024 elections there are attempts to degrade and castrate the implementation and enforcement of legal norms and ethical norms at the same time. The phenomenon of money politics, the politicization of social assistance, and the engineering of legal and democratic mechanisms through the weakening of judicial institutions, in this case the Constitutional Court, is proof that there is weak enforcement of legal norms and ethical norms in the 2024 elections. Therefore, the main solution to minimizing political corruption is to understand,implementation and enforcement of legal norms and ethical norms simultaneously and concurrently in the perspective of dignified justice.