| dc.description.abstract | The spread of fake news on social media raises many legal problems in Indonesia.
These legal problems are mainly lie in the formulation of the law as well as in the law enforcement
area. Legal problems arising from the spread of fake news must be resolved immediately, both at the
level of legislative policy and law enforcement, because it has a very negative impact on a person. In
addition, studies on the spread of fake news in Indonesian are still overlooked. Therefore, reviewing
the regulation on criminal liability for those who spread fake news on social media in Indonesia is very
important. Doctrinal legal research methodology was applied to investigate three main issues discussed
in this article. First, the current study shows that the act of spreading fake news on social media cannot
be charged with Article 28 of the Indonesia Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law
Number 8 of 2011 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions. Second, several Indonesian
court decisions were studied, and it is shown that judges in deciding cases of spreading fake news on
social media applied Law Number I of 1946 concerning Criminal Law. The last, related to criminal law
reform, the act of spreading fake news on social media should also be regulated within the Information
and Electronic Transactions Laws. | en_US |
