ABSTRACT--The Criminal Justice System has played a large
role in shaping thinking about the concept of crime and how to
deal with it through the judiciary. The legal system approach
with criminal justice to justice has important strengths.
However, there are also significant limitations and fail in
certain conditions. Victims, perpetrators, and communities
often feel that justice does not adequately meet their needs.
Many people feel that the judicial process will only deepen
social scars and conflict rather than contribute to peace. On
the basis of these problems, normative legal research will
answer them through a statutory and conceptual approach.
This research shows that restorative justice can be an
alternative and answer to a number of problems related to the
burden carried by the criminal justice system.

Keywords: restorative justice approach, alternative, criminal
justice system, Indonesia