Criminal Sanctions toward False Criminal Actors through the Internet

Abstract

The development of science and technology, especially information technology such as the internet is very supportive of everyone to achieve their life goals in a short time, both legal and illegal by justifying any means because they want to make a profit. The progress of current information technology and the possibility of the future is inseparable from the encouragement made by the development of communication technology and computer technology, while communication technology is driven by micro-electronic technology. As a result of the rapid and rapid development of technology and information, it will sooner or later change the behavior of society and human civilization globally, because information technology creates a world without borders, it also spurs the emergence of new modes and crime through information technology. The development of technology and information is also improving in the field of internet including fraud crimes committed through the internet. Fraud through electronic media occurs if someone intentionally makes transactions on online shopping sites fictitiously or someone who commits fraud by utilizing the means of a website even through email facilities by providing data or false promises. Fraud through the internet media is increasingly widespread among the public. By using skilled knowledge about the internet, the perpetrators then use these skills to carry out this crime. The rule of law itself does not seem to be a problem for perpetrators of fraud via the internet. The threat of punishment from Article 45 paragraph (2) of the ITE Law is only a guarantee for consumers while the perpetrators do not think about it.