Ketahanan Profesional Jaksa dalam Menangani Perkara Berisiko Tinggi: Studi Fenomenologi pada Praktik Penuntutan

Abstract

This study aims to explore the professional resilience of prosecutors in handling high-risk cases using a phenomenological approach. Professional resilience is conceptualized as a dynamic process shaped by the interaction between subjective experiences and institutional contexts within prosecutorial practice. This research employs a transcendental phenomenological design involving 20 prosecutors selected through purposive sampling based on their experience in high-risk cases. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and analyzed using phenomenological procedures, including epoche, phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, and essence synthesis, complemented by thematic coding techniques. The findings reveal five core dimensions of professional resilience: risk perception, multidimensional pressure, adaptive strategies, ethical dilemmas and integrity, and meaning-making reflection. The results indicate that resilience is not a static attribute but evolves through adaptive and reflective processes in response to structural and psychological pressures. Professional integrity emerges as a key mechanism in maintaining consistency of action under ethical dilemmas, while reflective meaning-making strengthens professional identity. Theoretically, this study proposes an integrative model of prosecutorial resilience that incorporates psychological, ethical, and institutional dimensions into a unified analytical framework. This model extends existing resilience frameworks, which predominantly emphasize individual factors, by integrating a broader socio-legal context. Practically, the findings highlight the importance of strengthening emotional capacity, ethical integrity, and reflective organizational culture within law enforcement institutions to enhance prosecutorial performance. This study contributes both empirically and conceptually to experience-based legal research and provides a foundation for future longitudinal and interdisciplinary studies to further examine the dynamics of professional resilience.