Preventing Undue Delay in Investigation: Propam Oversight in Pontianak under the 2025 Criminal Procedure Code

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Undue delay in criminal investigation has become a reviewable wrong under Indonesia’s 2025 Criminal Procedure Code, yet the internal police function responsible for preventing it is unclear. This study examined what the Code and the police’s internal rules require regarding undue delay, what competence the Professional and Security Section (Propam) of the Pontianak City Police holds relative to other oversight actors, and what framework would let it contribute without overreaching. A socio-legal design combined statutory, conceptual, case, and empirical approaches and graded sources by reliability. The analysis found that the Code defines delay by the absence of a legitimate reason and not by a number of days, that the first reported court decisions disagreed on whether delay at the inquiry stage is reviewable, and that documented, continuous handling was becoming the practical standard. Propam’s competence was real but limited to discipline, ethics, and integrity, while technical supervision belonged to the investigation line. No public institutional data existed for Pontianak. The study proposed a seven-step delay-risk oversight protocol, built on a division of labour, which remained to be validated.