Corporate Crime in Indonesian Criminal Law System

The criminal code (kuhp) has not listed corporations as legal subjects that can be heldcriminally liable. this is because the description of the perpetrators of crimes is still often associated withacts that are physically carried out by perpetrators while in the socio-economic environment, a criminaloffender does not always need to physically commit a crime. corporate actions are always manifestedthrough human actions that are normally carried out by administrator or management. therefore, thedelegation of management responsibility can become corporate actions (legal entity) if the act in thesocio-economic environment acts as a corporate act. specific to economic crimes in their efforts to solvethem are still using emergency law number 7 of 1955 on economic crimes, where corporations can beimposed criminal sanctions when committing economic crimes that fall within the scope of their businessactivities, theoretically and practically, criminal law subjects that can be accounted for criminally arehumans (natuurlijke persoon) and legal entities (rechtpersoon).