PENEGAKAN HUKUM PIDANA TERHADAP KAMPANYE HITAM DI MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM PEMILIHAN UMUM TAHUN 2019 (STUDI KASUS BAWASLU SUMATERA BARAT)

Abstract

Article 267-339 of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections regulates the procedures for carrying out campaigns. Political parties use social media to campaign. Several parties use social media to carry out black campaigns. This research aims to analyze enforcement and inhibiting factors for criminal law enforcement against black campaigns on social media in the 2019 elections in West Sumatra. This research uses a socio-legal approach. Conclusion: 1. Bawaslu, GAKkumdu, and Polri play an active role in enforcing the law on black campaign cases. When those who do black campaign participants, organizers, and the campaign team, Bawaslu will handle it together with Gakkumdu. When ordinary people do it, Bawaslu delegates it to the National Police. 2. The inhibiting factor is the correctness of the formal and material requirements and laws.