History Of Criminal Law In Indonesia

Abstract

As a public law in nature, criminal law contains provisions that determine the rules for actions that cannot be carried out accompanied by threats in the form of punishment and determine the conditions for which the criminal can be imposed. In addition to upholding human values, criminal law is intended to enforce the criminal law to impose sanctions on humans who violate it. This is because later discussion of the material of criminal law is carried out with extra care by considering the community's context in which criminal law is enforced and still upholding civilized human values. Criminal law is considered acceptable if it meets and conforms to the importance of society. Conversely, criminal law is deemed insufficient if it is outdated and not according to society's values . Because Indonesia has been colonized, especially by Europeans, the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) history is very long. The research that will be used uses a juridical normative review, and the approach used in this study is statutory conceptual and an analytical approach.