Cybercrime or what we often hear as cybercrime in Indonesia is contained or regulated in the ITE Law and its amendments. Cybercrime is a crime involving computers and computer networks. The various types of crimes on the internet that are regulated in the ITE Law include:

1. Criminal acts related to illegal activities, namely;
2. Deliberately and without right to distribute or disseminate, transmit, so that illegal content can be accessed, consisting of:
3. content that violates decency;
4. gambling charges;
5. content of insults and defamation;
6. charges of extortion and threats;
7. false and misleading news that results in consumer losses in electronic transactions;
8. information that creates feelings of hatred or hostility towards certain individuals and community groups based on ethnicity, religion, race, and between groups (SARA);
9. information and electronic documents containing threats of violence or intimidation aimed at personally;
10. intentionally and without authorization or unlawfully accessing another person’s computer and electronic system in any way;
11. illegal interception or tapping of other people’s information and electronic documents and electronic systems.
12. Criminal acts related to interference, namely:
13. Interference with information and electronic documents, for example changing, adding, reducing, destroying, eliminating, moving, hiding (data interference) electronic information and electronic documents;
14. Disturbance to the electronic system (system interference) so that it cannot work as it should;
15. The crime of facilitating prohibited acts:

unlawfully producing, selling, procuring for use, importing, distributing, providing, or possessing computer hardware or software, computer passwords, and access codes to commit criminal acts regulated in the ITE Law (Article 27 to Article 33 of the ITE Law) ;

4. The criminal act of falsifying information and electronic documents so that they are considered to be authentic data;
5. Additional criminal acts (accessoir) for those who commit acts in Article 30 to Article 34 of the ITE Law which result in harm to other people ;
6. Weighting of criminal threats with certain conditions;
7. Skimming is a cyber crime using credit cards which is carried out by illegally copying information on the magnetic stripe of an ATM card to have control over the victim’s account;
8. The crime of inserting viruses onto the internet is called cyber sabotage and extortion;
9. Web forgery or web phishing is a type of cybercrime that aims to imitate the original website. The appearance of this website is made to resemble the original. The victim was then asked to enter his identity in a form that had been prepared by the perpetrator. After the victim enters their user ID and password, the data will be stored in the website’s database. This stored data is what the perpetrators are targeting to misuse for their interests.

These are the types of cyber crimes whose classification has been regulated in the ITE Law in Indonesia.

Legal basis:

Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions as amended by Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions, secondly amended by Law Number 1 of 2024 concerning Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions.

References:

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