Prinsip Proporsionalitas Dalam Kebijakan Formulatif Tindak Pidana Pencemaran Nama Baik Di Media Sosial

Abstract

Proportionality in a criminal defamation policy on social media is crucial to ensure that individual conflicts in the society do not occur and fair policies are created. This study aims to identify whether the formulative policy for criminal acts of defamation on social media is in accordance with the principle of proportionality. This is a normative juridical research that uses statutory and conceptual approaches to analyze the formulation of the problem of the present study. The results of this study conclude that there is a contradiction between the criminal defamation law policy on social media and the regulation on freedom of opinion and expression as stipulated in Article 28 E and F of the 1945 Constitution. In addition, the policy for criminal defamation on social media is too high based on a comparison that refers to defamation sanctions in the Criminal Code and several court decisions on defamation cases on social media.