Attorney General of Indonesia

The Attorney General of Indonesia (Jaksa Agung Republik Indonesia) is the competent authority to advise the Government of Indonesia on matters of law.[1] The Attorney General represents the government at the Supreme Court of Indonesia and is a Cabinet-level official. The office is not part of the Justice Department, however, as the cabinet has its own Law and Human Rights department (Kementerian Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia) with a separate Minister of Law and Human Rights (Menteri Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia) that focuses on more technical matters and regulation making rather than executing the Supreme Court's order.

Attorney General of Indonesia Jaksa Agung
Incumbent Sanitiar Burhanuddin since October 2019
Cabinet-level official
Seat	Jakarta
Appointer	President of Indonesia with confirmation by the People's Representative Council
First holder	Gatot Taroenamihardja

The Attorney General is also a Solicitor General. Thus, the Attorney General can represent the Government in the Supreme Court. The Attorney General has the power to indict and prosecute outlaws and law breakers. The term of office of the Attorney General was determined by the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in 2010 to be concurrent with the term of office of the President of Indonesia.[2] The current Attorney General of Indonesia Sanitiar Burhanuddin, who assumed office in October 2019.

List of Attorneys General

Name	Term		Term length (days)
Gatot Taroenamihardja	12 August 1945	22 October 1945	71
Kasman Singodimejo	8 November 1945	6 May 1946	179
Tirtawinata
Suprapto
Gatot Taroenamihardja	1 April 1959	22 September 1959	174
Goenawan
Kadaroesman
Suthardio
Sugih Arto
Ali Said	4 April 1973	18 February 1981	2,877
Ismail Saleh	18 February 1981	30 May 1984	1,197
Hari Suharto	4 June 1984	19 March 1988	1,384
Sukarton Marmosujono^†	19 March 1988	29 June 1990	832
Singgih	3 August 1990	14 March 1998	2,780
Soedjono Atmonegoro	20 March 1998	15 June 1998	87
Andi Muhammad Ghalib	15 June 1998	29 October 1999	501
Marzuki Darusman	29 October 1999	1 June 2001	581
Baharuddin Lopa^†	6 June 2001	3 July 2001	27
Marsillam Simanjuntak	11 July 2001	14 August 2001	34
M.A. Rachman	14 August 2001	21 October 2004	1,164
Abdul Rahman Saleh	21 October 2004	9 May 2007	930
Hendarman Supandji	9 May 2007	24 September 2010	1,234
Darmono	24 September 2010	26 November 2010	63
Basrief Arief	26 November 2010	20 October 2014	1,424
Andhi Nirwanto	21 October 2014	20 November 2014	30
Muhammad Prasetyo	20 November 2014	22 October 2019	2,273
Sanitiar Burhanuddin	23 October 2019	Incumbent	475

^{† Died in office}

References

1. "indonesia.go.id". Archived from the original on 2012-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
2. Global Legal Monitor