Progressive Law as an Alternative Solution to Eradicate Money Laundering from Drug-Related Transactions Juna Karo Karo 1 , Bismar Nasution 2 , Sunarmi 3 , Mahmud Mulyadi 4 {junajunakaban@ymail.com 1 } Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia 1, 2, 3, 4 Abstract. Cases of drug-related criminal offenses are often accompanied by money laundering, but in practice eradication of money laundering from drug-related criminal offenses often encounters problems due to the existing regulations. Thus, a progressive law is required, to allow investigation on the money laundering crimes when there are “assets that are known or reasonably suspected to be proceeds of criminal offences”. In addition, coordination between the Police and Indonesian Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (INTRAC) can be realized through an integrated function to support the law enforcement institutions to eradicate money laundering. Keywords: Progressive Law, Money Laundering, Drugs 1 Introduction The increasing practice of money laundering, especially in Indonesia, has caused such losses to the state that clear efforts are needed to overcome them. Considering the increasing global competition in the financial services industry, some parties continue to question the efficiency of anti-money laundering efforts. International efforts have been carried out. The practice of money laundering has received considerable attention from countries all over the world. Moreover, the money in the practice of money laundering comes from serious crimes such as corruption, drug trafficking, and terrorism. Money laundering related to drug crimes is one of the predicate crimes that underlie money laundering crimes. Efforts to eradicate money laundering often encounter obstacles, particularly the legal provisions in its handling. The court proceedings on drug-related criminal offenses often reveal cases of money laundering. Public prosecutors in charge of such cases should be given special authority because these drug- related criminal offenses are categorized as serious crimes. Therefore, a regulation to accommodate the implementation of money laundering eradication is needed, that the eradication could depart from the current legal provisions which are still rigid and need to be reformed [1]. Prof. Satjipto argues that the culmination of legal method is when people dare to break free from the shackles of legislation and find new progressive ways. In this context, we no longer perform arithmetic in mathematics or spell out legislature articles; but rather act creatively and make the leap. We use the term “leap” to define that it is not merely following or bound by past habits (commonly referred to as jurisprudence or stare decisis) but by producing entirely new ICOLEG 2021, June 29-30, Semarang, Indonesia Copyright © 2021 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.29-6-2021.2312622