Shift in Procedural Law for Examining Pretrial Applications

The process of examining pretrial applications, through Supreme Court Regulation Number 4 of 2016, is determined to only seek formal truth. Therefore, the Pretrial Sole Judge is required to only examine the formal requirements of legal action as a coercive measure as stipulated in the pretrial object in Article 77 of the Criminal Procedure Code. However, prior to the emergence of the provisions of the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court through Decision Number 21/PUU-XIII/2014 has expanded the object of pretrial not only those contained in the decision but through legal considerations. This study aims to find an extension of the paradigm in determining procedural law in examining pretrial applications. This study uses legal research methods through literature study. The results of this study indicate that there are two pretrial object models that shift the paradigm in the process of examining pretrial applications from a quasi-civil procedure law with the search for the formal truth, to a quasi-criminal procedure law with the search for material truth, through the establishment of the Prudential Principle and Subjective Action as the object of a pretrial application. Keywords: pretrial, criminal procedure law, constitutional cour