Legal Literacy - This article discusses the definition and meaning of 'seponering' (discontinuance of prosecution) and its relation to the principle of opportuneness and the role of the Prosecutor in the criminal justice process. This article also explains the authority of the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia in exercising state power in the field of prosecution and other authorities based on law.

According to Article 1 number 1 of Law Number 11 of 2021 concerning Amendments to Law Number 16 of 2004 concerning the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia, it is explained that the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia, hereinafter referred to as the Attorney General's Office, is a government institution whose function is related to judicial power that exercises state power in the field of prosecution and other authorities based on law.

The Attorney General's Office, in carrying out its functions related to judicial power, is carried out independently. The arrangement of the functions of the Attorney General's Office related to judicial power needs to be strengthened as a foundation for institutional position and strengthening the duties and functions of the Attorney General's Office.

In exercising state power in the field of Prosecution, the authority of the Attorney General's Office to determine whether a case can or cannot be submitted to the Court has an important meaning in balancing between the applicable rules (rechtmatigheid) and interpretations that rely on the purpose or principle of expediency (doelmatigheid) in the criminal justice process. And one of the authorities possessed by a Prosecutor that is no less important is the principle of opportunity.