Abstract
This article seeks to compare the criminal sanction regulation upon narcotics offences between Indonesian Narcotics Law and Singapore Drugs Act. Indonesia and Singapore have shared commitments to eradicate drugs offences in its respective country. Despite their similarity, however, both countries also have different approach to be applied in their respective laws to eradicate drugs offence. Methodogically normative, a comparative is exercised in order to reveal to what extent do Indonesia and Singapore have similarities and differences in applying sanction upon drug offenders and how both countries manage to eradicate the offence. Despite its success to significantly decrease number of narcotics offences due to its strict approach in its appliaction and resulting in deterrence effect for criminal offenders, Singapore shall not be compared to Indonesia. Not only because both countries have different system of law but also face different character of region. Besides, Indonesia is much bigger than Singapore. Despites sharing differences, both country may learn, share, and cooperate each other in order to more effectively eradicate drugs offences in the both coutries
Highlights
Drugs offence has been playing a significant role as a trans-national crime both in Indonesia and Singapore
Concerning the fact that Indonesia is one of the signatories of the United Nations (UN) conventions regarding narcotics,1 Indonesian government has put effort to eradicate the offences through its Law Number 35/2009 on Narcotics. 2 In Indonesian law, criminalization is a part of the criminal system in which the definition of the sanction is pivotal
7 Based on Article 4 of the Indonesian Narcotics Law, the aims of the Law are to ensure the availability of Narcotics for the purpose of health and/or the development of science and technology; to prevent, protect and save the people of Indonesia from the abuse of Narcotics; to eradicate illicit traffic of Narcotics and Narcotics Precursor, and to ensure the regulation of the medical and social rehabilitation efforts for abusers and Narcotics addicts
Summary
7 Based on Article 4 of the Indonesian Narcotics Law, the aims of the Law are to ensure the availability of Narcotics for the purpose of health and/or the development of science and technology; to prevent, protect and save the people of Indonesia from the abuse of Narcotics; to eradicate illicit traffic of Narcotics and Narcotics Precursor, and to ensure the regulation of the medical and social rehabilitation efforts for abusers and Narcotics addicts. These goals are made based on Indonesian criminalization theory, which is a combination criminalization theory (verenigings theorieen). The following sections will discuss these explanations in greater details
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