Articles Of Document Forgery And Criminal Threats

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YOGYAKARTA Document forgery is a crime that can be prosecuted criminally. This means that anyone who deliberately falsifies a letter or document to get a certain profit will be threatened with imprisonment. The article on document forgery itself is in the Criminal Code (KUHP). To understand further the following explanation.

In the Criminal Code, the article alluding to the problem of document forgery is Article 263. In the article it is explained that light document forgery can be threatened with imprisonment. Article 263 paragraph 1 states, 'Whoever makes a fake letter or falsifies an original letter with the aim of deceiving other people or obtaining illegal profits, shall be punished with imprisonment for a maximum of six years'.

In Article 263, it is stated that the falsifiable documents include several criteria, namely as follows, quoted from R. Soesilo in his book the Criminal Code and his Complete Comments Articles for the sake of Articles.

The punishment will be heavier if the forgery is carried out on letters used for more specific purposes such as for financial transactions or legal agreements, as explained in Article 263 paragraph 2.

Not only in Article 263, Article 264 also provides a heavier threat to falsification of letters used in legal transactions or legal relations between individuals or entities. Examples of documents in question are Contract Agreement, Notary Deed, Power of Attorney, Debt Agreement Letter, Letter of Establishment of Business Entity, MoU, and many more.

The legal threat to document falsification described in Article 264 is a maximum imprisonment of 6 years. The duration of the bracket sentence is adjusted to the magnitude of the impact of the losses caused in the case of document forgery.

Apart from the Criminal Code, the threat of punishment is also mentioned in Law Number 27 of 2022 concerning Personal Data Protection (UU PDP). The law states that everyone is prohibited from creating false personal data or, personal data emalsification with the intention of benefiting themselves or others who can cause harm to others.

The threat of falsification of personal data letters is a maximum imprisonment of 6 years and/a maximum fine of IDR 6 billion.

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