Cybercrime As a Potential Criminal Act of Violation the ITE Law on Social Media: A Forensic Linguistic Study in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to describe sybercrime cases that have the potential to become criminal acts on social media that are closely related to the ITE Law.The aim is to find out what actions have the potential to violate the ITe Law carried out on social media which are included in cybercrime behavior.In addition, the author examines the effectiveness of this law in resolving criminal cases that occur on the internet, which is so complex and has various modes.The method used in this research is qualitative by conducting a literature study.As a result, the researchers found that the types of cyber crimes varied, ranging from hecking, spreading hoaxes, defamation, hate speech, and cases of spreading pornography/immoral acts.Furthermore, this study observes that the ITE Law which is used as a legal instrument is still inadequate considering the complexity of the problems that occur in cybercrime and modes of crime that accompany it. Indeks