Revenge Porn: Integral Policy And Public Moral Awareness

Abstract

Law Number 12 of 2022 on the Crime of Sexual Violence (TPKS) has specifically regulated online-based sexual crimes, including revenge porn, which has a high crime rate. The crime in the form of revenge porn causes the spread of personal photos or videos of a person containing pornography with the aim of taking revenge. The purpose of this study is to explain that the violence of revenge porn has been regulated in various laws systematically, and explain the integral policy in tackling revenge porn based on public moral awareness. This research uses a statutory approach and a conceptual approach. With descriptive analysis and interpretation of the principles in the TPKS Law to obtain valid research results. The results of the study indicate that (1) revenge porn has been regulated in the Criminal Code, the Pornography Law, the Electronic Information and Transaction Law, and the TPKS Law systematically, and has elements that form a criminal offense. (2) Integral policies that can be taken to tackle revenge porn violence can be done through fostering public legal awareness that forms public moral awareness, considering that revenge porn violence is synonymous with moral crimes. This study found that collaboration is needed from all parties involved in fostering public moral awareness in integral policies, such as schools and hospitals, as well as increasing digital literacy