Criminal Responsibility System Against Online Criminal Acts of Prostitution in Indonesia

Abstract

The criminal responsibility system for the crime of prostitution in Indonesia is partial and discriminatory. There is no guarantee of legal certainty and a legal vacuum for Commercial Sex Workers and their service users. This study aims to analyze and find the criminal responsibility system for prostitution according to positive criminal law in Indonesia and the weaknesses of the criminal responsibility system for prostitution based on the value of Pancasila justice. The paradigm in this research is post-positivism, which aims to produce new thoughts, understandings or ideas and theories in Indonesia's material criminal law system. The method of normative juridical approach, with secondary data sources obtained through literature studies both on primary, secondary and tertiary legal materials, the data were then analyzed by qualitative descriptive methods. The study results show that the construction of positive criminal law in the Indonesian Criminal Code and the Electronic Information and Transaction Law (UU ITE) cannot be used to impose criminal liability on all parties involved in this crime. The provisions are partial and discriminatory. Weaknesses can be seen from the aspect of substance, structure, and culture so that the ideal reconstruction of the policy is needed to reconstruct Article 296 and Article 506 of the Criminal Code as well as Article 27 paragraph (1) and Article 45 paragraph (1) of the ITE Law which is based on non-discrimination and equality before the law that comes from extracting living values, In society.