The Effectiveness of Crime Prevention with Corporal Punishment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam

Abstract

The enactment of corporal punishment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is one of the efforts of local government in realizing Islamic society. This corporal punishment is one of the alternatives for national criminal law policy in preventing crime which keeps increasing. This research aims to identify the background, implementation, and effectiveness of the corporal punishment in Qanun No. 14 Year 2003 for crime prevention and establishment of Islamic society in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province. This research is the field research, in Banda Aceh City, with the normative and empirical juridical approaches. Primary, secondary, and tertiary data sources were obtained through the field and document studies related to the topic of research using the content of qualitative descriptive analysis in which the instrument of research is the researcher. This research shows the result that implementation of the corporal punishment in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is still limited to the caning as one of the criminal sanctions, particularly in handling the case of khalwat (close proximity). However, the implementation of corporal punishment, in this case, has a quite effective role in the process of establishing an Islamic society in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.