Optimizing the Applications of Criminal Fines Against Electronic Technology Information Crime Based on the Principles of Let Punishment Fit the Crime

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210805.011How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Technology electronic information, crime, electronic information crime, punishment, imprisonment sanctions, criminal penalties

Abstract

Currently technological developments have led to an increase in criminal acts in the field of the technology electronic information. One of them are a criminal act committed by person who manipulating data as if the transaction was authentic and has actually happened. The actor invites several other people to make fictitious transactions of buying and selling vouchers using fictitious accounts and fictitious addresses. The perpetrators used the address of a relative or a people who they known without the owner knowing it was being used for fictitious transactions, losses of up to billions of rupiah to the Tokopedia company. In the court decision of Malang city court, the perpetrator is only given imprisonment and light fines. It isn’t comparable to the deeds and what is written in the laws of the technology electronic information the question arises how the application of criminal penalties that can be applied optimally and whether the criminal sanctions given are based on justice. The research of method is normative legal research and uses a statutory approach and a case approach, the research of data obtained through literature study. The conclusions results show that the use of fines in overcoming crimes in the information technology sector is not optimal. Giving punishment proportionally between action and punishment, it provides justice and provides learning for the perpetrators of other criminal acts. This study is to provide education to the public and particular to judges because they are wiser in making decisions against perpetrators of the technology electronic information.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lilyana Tasya Kurniawan
AU  - Ade Adhari
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - Optimizing the Applications of Criminal Fines Against Electronic Technology Information Crime Based on the Principles of Let Punishment Fit the Crime
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 73
EP  - 79
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.011
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.011
ID  - Kurniawan2021
ER  -