Food law in Indonesia has a criminal perspective that is oriented towards food security

Abstract

This research is focused on knowing and analyzing how the records/problems/problematics of the criminal system, especially in Law Number 18 of 2012 concerning Food (Food Law) in Indonesia. The type of research used is the normative juridical research method, this research is also known as library research. The primary legal material is in the form of laws and regulations as well as analysis of legal material used utilizing descriptive analysis. The results of the study identified that the criminal justice system in the Food Law in Indonesia has several notes/problems that need to be corrected/changed including those related to affirming the qualifications of a criminal offence (delict), the blurring of the subject of corporate crime and business actors, the disintegration of types and the formulation of sanctions criminal/administrative sanctions, as well as the imbalance in the weight of the number/length of sentences in the criminal system.