PENANGGULANGAN PRAKTIK CYBER PROSTITUTION PADA APLIKASI MICHAT BERDASARKAN KEBIJAKAN KRIMINAL DI INDONESIA

Abstrak

Prostitution is a despicable act because it violates the norms that live and develop in society,
especially moral norms. One of the crimes that is a concern in today's society is prostitution in the
cyber world (cyber prostitution). Along with the increasingly widespread use of the internet in
Indonesia, cyber prostitution activities are also developing. The perpetrators and pimps began to
use social networking sites such as MiChat to carry out their actions. MiChat which was
originally used for friendship, is now used to market sex transactions. Cyber prostitution cases in
Indonesia currently require a criminal law policy in an ef ort to overcome this. The regulations
governing this problem are the Law on Information and Electronic Transactions, the Law on
Pornography and the Criminal Code. This research is a descriptive normative legal research with
a statutory approach, namely examining the laws and regulations related to the legal issues raised
and with an analytical approach. The results of this study indicate non-penal countermeasures,
government institutions have carried out supervision or monitoring of applications that are often
used as media for cyber prostitution. Meanwhile, legally, the Criminal Code and the ITE Law do
not clearly regulate the definition of online prostitution.