Fraud Sanctions For Concert Ticket Brokers, Maximum 4 Years In Prison And 500 Million Fines

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YOGYAKARTA - As has happened, whenever there are well-known artists, especially international classes who plan to hold concerts in Indonesia, issues about ticket brokers always arise. Because including criminal acts, of course there are sanctions for fraudulent concert ticket brokers.

Calo is an intermediary who provides services in the form of managing a need, for example a ticket purchase broker. Basically, in terms of law, the relationship between brokers and service users is based on an agreement between the two parties.

Thus, broker services such as concert ticket brokers are legal and legal allowed.

However, what often happens in the community, many concert ticket brokers undergo acts or practices of fraud to potential buyers. The forms of fraud that are often encountered include counterfeiting concert tickets, doubling tickets, and brokers that disappear after buyers make payments.

So, what legal sanctions can be applied to this case?

Sanctions for concert ticket brokers, such as other forms of fraud, are regulated in Article 378 of the Criminal Code and Article 492 of Law 1/2023 concerning the Criminal Code.

Based on Article 378 of the Criminal Code, perpetrators of fraudulent concert ticket brokers can be subject to a maximum imprisonment of four years.

'Whoever with the intention of benefiting himself or others against the law, by using a false name or fake dignity, by trickery, or a series of lies, mobilizing others to hand over something to him, or in order to pay debts or write off receivables, is threatened with fraud with a maximum imprisonment of 4 years.'

Meanwhile, if you look at Article 492 of Law 1/2023 which has only been in effect for three years from the date of promulgation, namely in 2026, the sanction for brokers is imprisonment for a maximum of four years or a maximum fine of IDR 500 million.

Everyone who with the intention of benefiting himself or another person against the law by using a false name or false position, using deception or a series of lies, mobilizing people to hand over an item, giving debts, making debts, or eliminating receivables, shall be punished for fraud, with a maximum imprisonment of 4 years or a maximum fine of category V, which is IDR 500 million.

Apart from being charged with the article of fraud, concert ticket brokers who undergo fraud can also be subject to criminal charges in the article of forgery of letters in accordance with Article 263 paragraph (1) of the Criminal Code.

"Whoever makes fake letters or falsifies letters that can give rise to a right, bond or debt exemption, or what is intended as evidence of something with the intention of using or ordering other people to use the letter as if its contents are correct and not falsified, is threatened if the use can cause harm, because of falsification of letters, with a maximum imprisonment of 6 years..

Another rule that also regulates sanctions for perpetrators of letter forgery is Article 391 paragraph (1) of Law 1/2023.

Anyone who makes it incorrectly or fakes a letter that can cause rights, bonds or debt exemption, or is intended as evidence of a thing, with the intention of using or asking others to use it as if its contents were true and not fake, if the use of the letter can cause harm, shall be punished for falsification of letters, with a maximum imprisonment of 6 years or a maximum fine of category VI, which is IDR 2 billion.

That's a review of the concert ticket broker fraud sanctions. For those of you who intend to watch a concert, you should contact the committee who really takes care of the event to avoid the worst. Visit VOI.id to get other interesting information.