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1 / 117 PENAL CODE OF INDONESIA

BOOK I
General Provisions

CHAPTER I
Extent of operation of the statutory penal provisions

Article 1
(1) No act shall be punished unless by virtue of a prior statutory penal provision.
(2) In case of alteration in the legislation after the date of commission of the act, the most favourable
provisions for the accuse shall apply.

Article 2
The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to any person who is guilty of a punishable act within
Indonesia.

Article 3
The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to any person who is guilty of a punishable act outside
Indonesia on board an Indonesian vessel or aircraft.

Article 4
The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to any person who outside Indonesia is guilty of:
1st, one of the crimes described in articles 104, 106, 107, 108, 110. 111 bis, under 1st, 127 and 131;
2nd-ly, any crime with respect to coin or paper money issued by the State or by the Bank, or with
respect to stamps issued and marks used by the Indonesian Government;
3rd-ly, Forgery of debetures of debt certificates changeable to Indonesia, to a region or part of a
region, including counterfoils, evidence of dividends and interests belonging to said documents,
and certificates issued in lieu of said documents, or the use of such false or forged documents
as if it genuine and unfalsified;
4th-ly, one of the crimes described in articles 438, 444-446, as far as they concern piracy, and those
crimes described in article 447 relating to the surrender of a vessel to pirates, and article 479j
relating to the unlawful exercises of control of aircraft, article 479i, m, n and o relating to crimes
which jeopardize the safety of civil aviation.

Article 5
(1) The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to an Indonesian National who outside Indonesia

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2 / 117 commits:
1st, one of the crimes described in Chapters I and II of the second Book, and in articles 160, 161,
240, 279, 450 and 451;
2nd-ly, an act deemed by the Indonesian statutory penal provisions to be a crime and on which
punishment is imposed by the law of the country where it has been committed.
(2) The prosecution of the crime referred to under secondly may also be instituted if the accused becomes a
subject after the commission of the act.

Article 6
The applicability of article 5, first paragraph, 2nd-ly, is limited such that the capital punishment cannot be
imposed upon an act which the capital punishment is not provided for by the law of the country where the act
has been committed.

Article 7
The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to the Indonesian official who outside Indonesia is
guilty of one of the crimes described in Chapter XXVIII of Book II.

Article 8
The Indonesian statutory penal provisions are applicable to the shipper and those on board an Indonesian
vessel who outside Indonesia, also when not on board, is guilty of one of the punishable acts, described in
Chapter XXIX of Book II and Chapter IX of Book III, including the general regulations on sea-letters and
certificates of registry in Indonesia and in the “Schepen Ordonnantie 1927” (Ships Ordinance 1927).

Article 9
The applicability of articles 2-5, 7 and 8 are restricted by the exceptions recognized in international law.

CHAPTER II
Punishments

Article 10
The punishments are:
a. basic punishments:
1st, capital punishment,
2nd-ly, imprisonment,
3rd-ly light imprisonment,
4th-ly, fine;

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3 / 117 b. additional punishments:
1st, deprivation of certain rights,
2nd-ly, forfeiture of specific property,
3rd-ly, publication of judicial verdict.

Article 11
The capital punishment shall be executed by shooting the sentenced person to death (As amended by article 1
of Act No. 2/Pnps/1964).

Article 12
(1) The imprisonment is for life or temporary.
(2) The term of the temporary imprisonment is at least one day and at most fifteen consecutive years.
(3) Temporary imprisonment may be imposed for at most twenty consecutive years in cases where in the
discretion of the judge the crime is punishable by capital punishment, life-long and temporary
imprisonment, or life-long or temporary imprisonment, and in those cases where by reason of a sentence
increace because of conjunction of crimes, recidivism of crime or the provisions under article 52, and 52a,
the term of fifteen years is exceeded.
(4) In no case the term of twenty years may be exceeded.

Article 13
The persons sentenced to imprisonment are classified into categories.

Article 14
The person sentenced to imprisonment shall perform the labour imposed upon him accordance with the
regulation laid down for the implementation of article 29.

Article 14a
(1) In case of sentence to imprisonment of at most one year and in case of sentence to light imprisonment not
including substitutive light imprisonment, the sentencing judge my also give the order that the punishment
shall not be executed, unless later on by judicial verdict may be ordered otherwise by reason that the
sentenced person before termination of a probation period determined by the order has committed a
punishable act or during said probation period has not fulfilled a special condition, which may be stipulated
by the order.
(2) The sentencing judge has the same competence, except in cases of State’s resources and leases, in case
of a sentence to fine, but only if it is evident to him that the payment of the fine or the forfeiture, which may
also be pronounced, produces severe difficulties to the sentenced person.
Crimes and misdemeanours concerning opium are regarded for the applicability of this paragraph to be
concerned only with State’s resources, as far as with respect to those crimes and misdemeanours, it is
provided that in case of a sentence to fine the provisions of article 30 paragraph 2 shall not apply.

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4 / 117 (3) With respect to the basic punishment the order also covers, as far as the judge does not provide
otherwise, the imposed additional punishments.
(4) The order shall not be issued, unless the judge after close examination is convinced that adequate
supervision can be exercised on the fulfilment of the general condition that the sentenced person will not
commit a punishable act and of the special conditions if these were imposed.
(5) The verdict containing the order referred to in the first paragraph, shall incorporate the causal facts or
circumstances on which it was based.

Article 14b
(1) The probation period for crimes and misdemeanours described in articles 492, 504, 505, 506 and 536 is at
most three years, for other misdemeanours at most two years.
(2) The probation period takes effect as soon as the verdict has become final and has been made known to
the sentenced person in a manner fixed by law.
(3) The probation period does not take effect during the period that the sentenced person is deprived of his
freedom by reason of a lawful detention.

Article 14c
(1) By the order referred to in article 14a, the judge may, except in case of sentence to fine, in addition to the
general condition, that the sentenced person shall not commit a punishable act, fix a special condition that
the sentenced person shall, within a fixed period of time shorter than the probation period, compensate
wholly or partly for damages caused by the punishable act.
(2) In case of sentence either to imprisonment for longer than three months, or to light imprisonment imposed
on account of one of the misdemeanours described in articles 492, 504, 505, 506 and 536, the sentencing
judge shall have the power to fix also other special conditions by his order with regard to the behaviour of
the sentenced person which shall be satisfied by the latter during the probation period or part of the
probation period fixed by said order.
(3) Those conditions shall not restrict the religious and political freedom of the sentenced person.

Article 14d
(1) The officer in charge of the supervision on the fulfilment of the condition shall be the officer who, when
later an order for execution may be issued, makes execute the sentence.
(2) The sentencing judge may, if there are grounds for it, by his order instruct an institution domiciled and
incorporated in Indonesia, a member of the management of an institution domiciled in Indonesia, or a
special officer, to provide help and assistance to a sentenced person in fulfilling the special conditions.
(3) Instruction for further regulation of said supervision and assistance and for further designation of the
institutions and members of the management of institutions who may be charged with the provision of the
assistance, shall be fixed by statute.

Article 14e
The judge who has senteced in first instance, may, either on receipt of an advice from the officer mentioned in
the first paragraph of article 14d, or at the request of the sentenced person, alter during the probation period, the
special conditions or the term by which the special conditions are limited in their operations within the probation

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5 / 117 period, assign the provision of assistance to another person than the one earlier charged with the assistance, or
extend the period of probation once. The extension of period shall be made for at most half of the longest period
at which the probation could have been fixed.

Article 14f
(1) Without prejudice to the provision in the previous article, the judge who has sentenced in first instance,
may on receipt of an advice from the officer mentioned in the first paragraph of article 14d, if the
sentenced person during the probation period is guilty of a punishable act and for that reason has been
irrevocably sentenced, or if one of the other conditions has not been met, or if the sentenced person
before termination of the probation period has been irrevocably sentenced on account of a punishable act,
committed before said probation period, instruct execution or determine that the sentenced person shall
be admonished on his behalf. In the last case he will also determine the manner in which the admonition
shall take place.
(2) The order for execution may not be issued any more when the probation period has expired, unless the
sentenced person before termination of the probation period is prosecuted on account of a punishable act
committed during the probation period and the prosecution ends with an irrevocable verdict. In this case
within two months after the sentence has become irrevocable, the order for execution may still be issued
in the ground of the committed punishable act.

Conditional Release
Article 15
(1) The person sentenced to imprisonment, may, when two thirds of his actual term of imprisonment and at
least nine months of the term have elapsed, be released conditionally.
In case the sentenced person must serve more imprisonments consecutively, the imprisonments are
considered for this purpose to be one sentence.
(2) By this conditional release a probation period for the sentenced person shall be determined and the
condition, which the sentenced person shall satisfy during the probation period, shall be fixed.
(3) The duration of the probation period is one year longer than the remaining part of the actual term of
imprisonment of the sentenced person. It is not effective during the time that the sentenced person is
lawfully deprived of his freedom.

Article 15a
(1) The conditional release shall be tied in with the general condition that the sentenced person shall not
commit any punishable act, nor misbehave himself otherwise.
(2) The conditional release may also be tied in with special conditions with respect to the conduct of the
sentenced person, provided these conditions do not restrict the religious or political freedom.
(3) With the supervision on the fulfilment of the conditions is charged the officer mentioned in the first
paragraph of article 14 d.
(4) For the fulfilment of the conditions a special supervision may also be instituted, which exclusively has the
objective of providing help and assistance to the sentenced person.
(5) During the probation period the conditions may be amended or discontinued, or special conditions may as
yet be imposed, a special supervision may as yet be instituted and the special supervision may be
commissioned to a body or person other than the body or person previously in charge.

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6 / 117 (6) To the conditionally released person a pass shall be issued on which all conditions imposed upon him
shall be stipulated. In case the foregoing paragraph becomes operative, a new pass shall be issued to
him.

Article 15b
(1) The conditional release can be withdrawn in case the sentenced person during the probation period acts
in contravention of the conditions stipulated in his pass. It may, if the existence of such acts is seriously
suspected, be suspended by the Minister of Justice.
(2) The time period between a release and a resumption of the execution of the sentence is not included in
the term of the punishment.
(3) The withdrawal can no longer be effected if since termination of the probation a period of three months
has elapsed, unless the sentenced person before termination of the three months period is prosecuted on
the ground of a punishable act committed during the probation period and the prosecution ends with an
irrevocable condemnation. In that case the conditional release may be withdrawn on the ground that the
sentenced person has committed the act still within three months, after the condemnation has become
irrevocable.

Article 16
(1) The decissions of the conditional release are taken at the advice of or after inquiries from the director of
the prison where the sentenced person is present, by the Minister of Justice after receipt of an advice from
the Public Prosecutor of the region where the sentenced person comes from. These decisions shall only
be taken after the Central Board for the Probation System whose functions will be regulated by the
Minister of Justice, has been heard on the matter.
(2) The decisions of withdrawal of the conditional release and also those which result from the application of
the provision of article 15 a fifth paragraph, are made by the Minister of Justice after the advice of or after
inquiries have been made from the Public Prosecutor of the region where the sentenced person comes
from. These conditions are only made after the Central Board for the Probation System has been heard on
the matter.
(3) As long as the power of withdrawal of the conditional release exists, the person conditionally released,
against whom there is a reasonable suspicion that he has acted during the probation period contrary to
the conditions stipulated in his pass, may in the interest of the public order, be detained by order of the
Public Prosecutor of the region where the sentenced person comes from, under an obligation to give
instant notice thereof to the Minister of Justice.
(4) The duration of detention shall be at most sixty days.
If the detention is followed by a suspension or a withdrawal of the conditional release, the execution of the
sentence is deemed to be resumed on the day of the detention.

Article 17
The form of the passes and the further instructions for the implementation of articles 15, 15 a and 16 shall be
fixed by statute.

Article 18
(1) The duration of the light imprisonment shall be at least one day and at most one year.

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7 / 117 (2) It can be imposed for at most one year and four months in cases where, because of increment of
sentence for reason of a conjunction of crimes, recidivism or the provision under article 52, the period of
one year is exceeded.
(3) It may under no circumstances exceed the term of one year and four months.

Article 19
(1) The person sentenced to light imprisonment shall be obliged to perform the labour imposed upon him
according to the provisions of implementation of article 29.
(2) He shall be assigned a lighter labour than the person sentenced to imprisonment.

Article 20
(1) A judicial verdict may determine that the person sentenced to imprisonment or light imprisonment of at
most one month, be permitted by the Public Prosecutor to spend freely the hours after the work period.
(2) If the sentenced person with respect to such decision, unless for reasons independent of his will, is not
present at the stipulated time and the indicated place in order to perform the activities instructed to him, he
shall further serve his sentence in the usual way.
(3) The provision of the first paragraph shall not be applicable, if at the commitment of the act two years have
not yet elapsed since the offender has served imprisonment or light imprisonment.

Article 21
Light imprisonment shall be served in the area where the sentenced person lives or, in case he does not have a
dwelling, stays at the time of the execution of the judicial verdict, unless at his request the Minister of Justice
permits him to serve the sentence somewhere else.

Article 22
(1) Light imprisonment which must be served by a sentenced person who serves a liberty sentence at an
institution destined for the execution of an imprisonment, a light imprisonment, or both, may at his request
immediately after termination of the liberty sentence be served at the same institution.
(2) Light imprisonment hence served in an institution exclusively destined for imprisonment shall
consequently not change its nature.

Article 23
Any person sentenced to light imprisonment may at his own costs allow himself some improvement of his lot
according to regulations to be further laid down by statute.

Article 24
Persons sentenced to imprisonment and light imprisonment may be obliged to perform labour either indoors or
outdoors of an institution destined for taking convicts.

Article 25

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8 / 117 Outdoors labour at such an institution shall not be imposed upon:
1st, those sentenced to life imprisonment;
2nd-ly, women;
3rd-ly, sentenced persons who after medical examination appear to be unfit for said labour.

Article 26
If in the opinion of the judge by reason of personal or social circumstances there are grounds for it, it shall be
determined by judicial verdict that no outdoors labour at an institution destined for taking convicts shall be
imposed upon the sentenced person.

Article 27
The term of the temporary imprisonment and the light imprisonment shall be indicated in the judicial verdict in
days, weeks, months and years, not in parts thereof.

Article 28
Imprisonment and light imprisonment may be served at the same institution provided that they are served in
separate departments.

Article 29
(1) The assignment of the institutions where either imprisonment or light imprisonment of both are served,
and also of the organization and management of these institutions, of the sub-division of the prisoners into
classes, of the labour, of the wages for the labour, of the accommodation of the convicts who do not stay
at the prison, of the education, of the divine services, of the discipline, of the bedding, of the food and of
the clothes shall be fixed by statute according to this code.
(2) Household regulations for those institutions shall, if necessary, be fixed by the Minister of Justice.

Article 30
(1) The amount of the fine shall be at least twenty five cents.
(2) In case of sentence to fine, the fine shall, if no paid, be substituted by light imprisonment.
(3) The term of the substitutive light imprisonment shall be at least one day and at most six months.
(4) The term of the substitutive light imprisonment shall be determined in the judicial verdict, in this manner,
that for an imposed fine in the amount of half a Rupiah or less, shall be substituted one day, for an
imposed fine in a bigger amount, shall be substituted not more than one day for each half a Rupiah of the
imposed fine and for the remaining part thereof.
(5) Light imprisonment may be imposed for at most eight months in cases where on account of conjunction of
crimes, recidivism or the provision in article 52, the maximum of the crime is increased.
(6) It shall under no circumstances exceed the term of eight months.

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9 / 117 Article 31
(1) The person sentenced to fine may immediately serve the, substitutive light imprisonment without awaiting
the term of payment.
(2) He shall always have the right to be freed from the substitutive light imprisonment by payment of the fine.
(3) The payment of part of the fine, either prior to the execution of the substitutive light imprisonment or after it
has commenced, shall set the sentenced person free from the execution of a proportional part of the
substitutive punishment.

Article 32
(1) Imprisonment and light imprisonment shall, as far as each of these punishments concerns, take effect as
regards sentenced persons who have been temporarily detained, on the day when the judicial verdict has
become final, and as regards other sentenced persons on the day of the execution of the judicial verdict.
(2) If by the same judicial verdict imprisonment and light imprisonment are imposed on the ground of acts, for
which or for one of which the sentenced person has been temporarily detained, and if the verdict for all
convictions becomes final at the same moment, then the imprisonment shall take effect at that moment
and the light imprisonment immediately after termination of the imprisonment.

Article 33
(1) By the judicial verdict may be determined that the time spent by the sentenced person prior to the day
when the verdict becomes final will be deducted upon execution from the imposed temporary
imprisonment, light imprisonment or fine; as for the fine, according to the standard determined in the third
paragraph of article 31.
(2) The time during which an accused person has been detained without warrant in writing shall not be
deducted unless expressly determined in the verdict.
(3) The provisions of this article shall also be applicable in case, by simultaneous prosecution on account of
more acts, the verdict is pronounced on the ground of another act than for which the sentenced person is
temporarily detained.

Article 33a
If by a person sentenced to imprisonment and light imprisonment who is temporarily detained, or by a third party
with the approval of the sentenced person, a request for grace is submitted, the time that elapses between the
day of submission of said request and the day when the President decides or the matter shall not be considered
as a term of imprisonment, unless the President, taking into consideration the circumstances of the case,
determines in his decision that the time shall count wholly or partially as a term of imprisonment.

Article 34
In case of escape of the convict while serving his sentence, the time hence spent outside the place where he
must serve his sentence, shall not be counted into the term of the sentence.

Article 35
(1) The rights of which the offender in cases determined by this code or by another general regulation may be
deprived by judicial verdict, are:

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10 / 117 1st, to hold offices or specific offices;
2nd-ly, to serve with the armed forces;
3rd-ly, to vote and be voted for in elections held by virtue of general regulations;
4th-ly, to be a counsellor or a legal manager and to be a guardian, co-guardian, curator or co-curator
over other children than his own;
5th-ly, the paternal authority, the guardianship and the curatorship over one’s own children;
6th-ly, to exercise specific professions.
(2) The competence of the judge to deprive an official of a specific office shall not exist if by regulation
another power is exclusively designated for said deprivation.

Article 36
Release from the right to hold offices or specific offices and to serve with the armed forces may, except in the
cases described in the Second Book, be pronounced by verdict on account of an abuse of power or on account
of a crime whereby the person found guilty violating a special duty or whereby he made use of authority,
opportunity or means conferred upon him by his office.

Article 37
(1) Deprivation from the paternal authority and from the guardianship, the co-guardianship, both over one’s
own children as well as over other ones may, except in cases described in the Second Book, be
pronounced in the judgment against:
1st, parents or guardians who deliberately with a minor who has been submitted to their authority take
part in a crime;
2nd-ly, parents or guardians who commit a crime described in Chapters XIII, XIV, XV, XVIII, XIX and XX
of the Second Book, against a minor who has been submitted to their authority.
(2) The deprivation referred to in the foregoing paragraph cannot be pronounced by the sentencing judge
against those persons to whom provisions contained in the Civil Code on deprivation of parental authority,
guardianship and curatorship are applicable.

Article 38
(1) When deprivation of rights is pronounced, the judge shall determine the terms as follows:
1st, by a verdict to capital punishment or to a life imprisonment, for life;
2nd-ly, by a verdict to temporary imprisonment or to light imprisonment, for a time exceeding the term of
the basic punishment by at least two and at most five years;
3rd-ly, by a verdict to fine, for a time of at least two and at most five years.
(2) The punishment takes effect on the day when the judicial verdict can be executed.

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Article 39
(1) Objects belonging to the sentenced person, acquired by means of a crime or with which a crime
deliberately has been committed, may be forfeited.
(2) By a verdict on account of a crime not intentionally committed, or on account of a misdemeanour, a similar
forfeiture may be pronounced in the cases determined by statutory provision.
(3) Forfeiture may be pronounced against the person found guilty who is placed at the disposal of the
Government, however only of objects which have been confiscated.

Article 40
In cases of possession, importation or transportation of property in violation of the provisions concerning ;the
funds and leases of the country, of the provisions regulating the supervision over the navigation in certain parts
of Indonesia and of the provisions prohibiting the importation, exportation and transit of property, by a person
under the age of sixteen years, the judge may, also if the person found guilty is returned to his parents, his
guardian or his fosterer, without the application of a punishment, pronounce the forfeiture of property referred to.

Article 41
(1) Forfeiture of property not confiscated shall, in case said property is not surrendered or the money value at
which it is estimated is not paid, be substituted by light imprisonment.
(2) The term of this substitutive light imprisonment is at least one day at most six months.
(3) Said term is determined in the judicial verdict in this manner that for an amount of money of half a Rupiah
or less, shall be substituted one day, for a higher amount, not more than one day for each half Rupiah and
for the remaining part thereof.
(4) To this substitutive light imprisonment article 31 shall be applicable.
(5) Likewise the surrender of said property releases a person from the substitutive light imprisonment.

Article 42
All expenses of imprisonment and light imprisonment are chargeable to the Government, all revenues from fines
and forfeitures are in behalf of the Government.

Article 43
In cases where the judge by virtue of this code or another general regulation orders the publication of his verdict,
he shall at the same time determine the manner in which the order shall be executed at the expenses of the
sentenced person.

CHAPTER III
Exclusion, mitigation and enhancement of punishment

Article 44

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12 / 117 (1) Not punishable shall be the person who commits an act for which by reason of the defective development
or sickly disorder of his mental capacities, he is not liable.
(2) If it is evident that he is not liable for the committed act by reason of the defective development or sickly
disorder of his mental capacities, the judge may give an order that he be placed in a lunatic asylum during
a probation time not exceeding the term of one year.
(3) The provision in the foregoing paragraph shall only apply to the Supreme Court, the High Court and the
District Court.

Article 45
In a criminal prosecution of a minor by reason of an act committed before he has reached the age of sixteen
years, the judge may;
either give the order that the person found guilty be returned to his parents, his guardian or his fosterer without
applying a punishment;
or, if the act falls under the provision of a crime or of one of the misdemeanours described in the articles 489,
490, 492, 496, 497, 503 – 505, 514, 517 – 519, 626, 631, 632, 536 and 540 and is committed before two years
have elapsed since an earlier conviction of the same person of one of these misdemeanours or of a crime has
become final, give the order that the person found guilty be placed at the disposal of the Government, without
applying a punishment;
or sentence the offender to a punishment.

Article 46
(1) If the judge has given the order that the offender be placed at the disposal of the Government, he shall be:
either placed at a Governmental institution in order that he be provided with his education at that place, or
later on in another manner by the Government;
or entrusted for his education to a certain person or a body corporate or foundation or charitable
institution, in order that he be provided with his education by these bodies, or later on in another manner,
by the Government;
in both cases at the utmost until he shall reach the age of eighteen years.
(2) Provisions for the implementation of the first paragraph of this article shall be fixed by law.

Article 47
(1) If the judge sentences the person found guilty to a punishment, the maximum of the basic punishment to
be imposed on the punishable act shall be mitigated by one third.
(2) If it concerns a crime on which the capital punishment or a crime on which life imprisonment is imposed, a
maximum imprisonment of fifteen years shall be imposed.
(3) The additional punishments mentioned in articles 10 under b, 1st and 3rd shall not be imposed.

Article 48
Not punishable shall be the person who commits an act to which he is compelled by force majours.

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13 / 117 Article 49
(1) Not punishable shall be the person who commits an act necessitated by the defence of his own or another
one’s body, chastity or property against direct or immediate threatening unlawful assault.
(2) Not punishable shall be the overstepping of the bounds of necessary defence, if it has been the immediate
result of a severe emotion caused by the assault.

Article 50
Not punishable shall be the person who commits an act for the execution of a statutory provision.

Article 51
(1) Not punishable shall be the person who commits an act for the execution of an official order issued by the
competent authority.
(2) An official order issued incompetently shall not exempt the punishment, unless it was considered in good
faith by the subordinate to be issued competently and its execution lied within the limit of his
subordination.

Article 52
If an official by committing a punishable act violates a special official duty or by committing a punishable act
employs the power, opportunity or means conferred upon him by his office, the punishment may be enhanced
with one third.

Article 52a
If during the commission of a crime the national flag of the Republic of Indonesia is used, the punishment
imposed upon said crime may be enhanced with one third.

CHAPTER IV
Attempt

Article 53
(1) Attempt to commit a crime is punishable if the intention of the offender has revealed itself by a
commencement of the performance and the performance is not completed only because of circumstances
independent of his will.
(2) The maximum of the basic punishments imposed on the crime in case of attempt shall be mitigated by one
third.
(3) If capital punishment or life imprisonment is imposed upon a crime, a maximum imprisonment of fifteen
years shall be imposed.
(4) The additional punishments for attempts are the same as for the completed crime.

Article 54

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14 / 117 Attempt to commit a misdemeanour shall not be punishable.

CHAPTER V
Participation in punishable acts

Article 55
(1) As principals of a punishable act shall be punished:
1st, those who perpetrate, cause others to perpetrate, or take a direct part in the execution of the act;
2nd-ly, those who intentionally provoke the execution of the act by gifts, promises, abuse of power or of
respect, force, threat or deception or by providing an opportunity, means or information.
(2) In respect to the provoker only those acts which have been deliberately provoked and their consequences
shall be considered.

Article 56
As accomplices to a crime shall be punished:
1st, the persons who deliberately aid in the commission of the crime;
2nd-ly, the persons who deliberately provide opportunity, means or information for the commission of the
crime.

Article 57
(1) The maximum of the basic punishments imposed upon the crime in complicity shall be mitigated by one
third.
(2) If it concerns a crime on which the capital punishment or a crime on which life imprisonment is imposed, a
maximum imprisonment of fifteen years shall be imposed.
(3) The additional punishment for complicity shall be the same as for the crime itself.
(4) In determining the punishment only those acts shall be considered which the accomplice has deliberately
facilitated or furthered, together with their consequences.

Article 58
The personal circumstances on account of which the imposition of the punishment is excluded, mitigated or
enhanced, in applying the penal provisions shall be computed only in respect of the said principal or accomplice
personally.

Article 59
In cases where by reason of misdemeanour punishment is imposed upon directors, members of a board of
management or commissioners, no punishment shall be pronounced against the director or commissioner who
evidently does not take any part in the commission of the misdemeanour.

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Article 60
Complicity to commit a misdemeanour shall not be punished.

Article 61
(1) In crimes committed by means of the press the publisher in such shall not be prosecuted, if the printed
matter mentions his name and domicile and the perpetrator is known or has been made known by the
publisher at the first warning after the bill.
(2) This provision shall not be applicable if at the time of publication no criminal proceedings against the
perpetrator could be instituted or the perpetrator was domicilled outside Indonesia.

Article 62
(1) In crimes committed by means of the press, the printer as such shall not be prosecuted, if the printed
matter mentions his name and domicile and the person by whose order the matter has been printed is
known or has been made known by the printer at the first warning after the bill.
(2) This provision shall not be applicable if at the time of printing no criminal proceedings could be instituted
against the person by whose order the matter was printed or the person by whose order the matter has
been printed was domiciled outside Indonesia.

CHAPTER VI
Conjunction of punishable acts

Article 63
(1) If an act falls within more than one penal provision, only one of those provisions shall apply whereby, in
case of difference, the most severe basic punishment shall be imposed.
(2) If for an act that falls under a general penal provision there exists a special penal provision, only the
special penal provision shall be considered.

Article 64
(1) If among more acts, even though each in itself forms a crime or misdemeanour, there is such a
relationship that they must be considered as one continued act, only one penal provision shall apply
whereby, in case of difference, the most severe penal provision shall be imposed.
(2) Likewise only one penal provision shall apply in a verdict of forgery or mutilation of coins and of the use of
the object in respect of which the forgery or mutilation of coins has been committed.
(3) If, however, the crime described in articles 364, 373, 379 and the first paragraph of article 407 are
committed in a continued act, and if the collective value of the loss on property enhanced by said
continued act amounts to more than twenty five Rupiahs, the penal provisions of articles 362, 372, 378
and 406 shall respectively apply.

Article 65

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16 / 117 (1) In. case of conjunction of more acts which must be considered as separate acts and which form more
crimes on which similar basic punishments are imposed, one punishment shall be imposed.
(2) The maximum of this punishment shall be the collective total of the maximum punishments imposed on
the acts, but not exceeding one third beyond the most severe maximum punishment.

Article 66
(1) In case of conjunction of more acts which must be considered as separate acts and which form more
crimes on which dissimilar basic punishments are imposed, each of said punishments shall be
pronounced, but altogether their term shall not exceed the longest term by more than one third.
(2) Fines are calculated in said cases according to the duration of the maximum substitutive light
imprisonment imposed upon the act.

Article 67
In case of a verdict to capital punishment or to life imprisonment no punishments shall be imposed in addition to
it, other than deprivation from certain rights, forfeiture of confiscated property and publication of the judicial
judgment.

Article 68
(1) In cases of articles 65 and 66 in respect of additional punishment the following provision shall apply:
1st, the punishments of deprivation of the same rights are dissolved into one punishment, exceeding
in term. the basic punishment or punishments imposed by at least two and at most five years, or
in case no other basic punishment is imposed than fine, dissolved into one punishment the term
of which is at least two and at most five years;
2nd-ly, the punishments of deprivation of dissimilar rights shall be imposed for each crime separately
and without mitigation;
3rd-ly, the punishments of forfeiture of specific property, similar to the substitutive light imprisonment in
case of nondelivery of said property, shall be imposed for each crime separately and without
mitigation.
(2) The sum total of the punishments of substitutive light imprisonment may not exceed the term of eight
months.

Article 69
(1) The relative severity of dissimilar basic punishments shall be determined by the sequence of article 10.
(2) In cases where the judge has the option between more basic punishments, only the most severe among
said punishments shall be taken into consideration in making a comparison.
(3) The relative severity of similar basic punishments shall be determined by the maximum punishment.
(4) The relative term of both the dissimilar as well as the similar basic punishments shall also be determined
by the maximum punishment.

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17 / 117 Article 70
(1) In cases of conjunction in the manner referred to in articles 65 and 66, both of misdemeanours together
with crimes as well as of misdemeanours among themselves, punishment shall be imposed on each
misdemeanours without mitigation.
(2) In case of misdemeanours, the punishments of light imprisonment and substitutive light imprisonment
together shall not exceed the term of one year and four months, and those of substitutive light
imprisonments together shall not exceed the term of eight months.

Article 70 bis
In respect of the application of articles 65, 66 and 70 the crimes described in the articles 302, first paragraph,
352, 364, 373, 379 and 482 shall be considered as misdemeanours, on the understanding that as far as
imprisonments are imposed these imprisonments for said crimes together shall not exceed the term of eight
months.

Article 71
If a person after sentence to punishment is again found guilty of a crime or misdemeanour committed prior to
said sentence, the earlier punishment shall be taken into account, with application of the provisions of this
chapter in the case of simultaneous trial.

CHAPTER VII
Filing and withdrawal of complaint in crimes to be prosecuted only upon complaint

Article 72
(1) As long as the person against whom a crime has been committed which is to be prosecuted only upon
complaint, has not reached the age of sixteen years and is also a minor, or as long as the person
otherwise than by reason of prodigality has been placed under guardianship, the person authorized to file
the complaint shall be his legal representative in private affairs.
(2) If the legal representative is missing, or if he is the person against whom the complaint had to be filed, the
prosecution may take place upon complaint of the co-guardian or co-curator, or of the board charged with
the co-guardianship or co-curatorship, of the wife, of a blood relative in the direct line, or in the absence of
this relative, upon complaint of a blood relative in the side-line until and including the third degree.

Article 73
If the person against whom the crime has been committed dies within the term prescribed in the following article,
the prosecution may, without extention of said term, take place upon complaint of the parents, of the children or
of the surviving spouse, unless it were evident that the deceased did not wish the prosecution to take place.

Article 74
(1) The complaint may only be filed within six months after the person authorized to file the complaint has
knowledge of the committed act, if he is domiciled within Indonesia, or within nine months after he has
knowledge of it, if he is domiciled outside Indonesia.

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18 / 117 (2) If at the moment when the person against whom the crime has been committed is authorized to file the
complaint, the term referred to in the first paragraph has not yet expired, he shall be competent to file the
complaint after that moment only during such time as the term remains.

Article 75
The person who files the complaint remains competent to withdraw the complaint during three months after the
filling date.

CHAPTER VIII
Lapse of the right to prosecute and of the punishment

Article 76
(1) Except for the cases where judicial verdicts are subject to revision, no person shall be prosecuted again
by reason of an act which the verdict of an Indonesian judge with repect to him has become final. By
Indonesian judge shall be understood also the judges of the Adat Law tribunals at places where such
tribunals exist.
(2) If the final verdict comes from another judge, no prosecution shall take place against the same person by
reason of the same act in case of:
1st, acquittal or lapse of time from prosecution;
2nd-ly, sentence followed by a completed execution, grace or lapse of time from punishment.

Article 77
The right to prosecute shall lapse by the death of the accused.

Article 78
(1) The right to prosecute shall lapse by lapse of time:
1st, in one year for all misdemeanours and for the crimes committed by means of the press;
2nd-ly, in six years for the crimes upon which fine, custody or imprisonment of not more than three years
is imposed;
3rd-ly, in twelve years for all crimes upon which temporary imprisonment for more than three years is
imposed;
4th-ly, in eighteen years for all crimes upon which capital punishment or life imprisonment is imposed.
(2) In respect of a person who before the commission of the act has not yet reached the age of eighteen
years, each of the terms of lapse of time mentioned above shall be mitigated by one third.

Article 79

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19 / 117 The term of lapse of time commences on the next day after the day on which that act has been committed,
except in the following cases:
1st, in forgery or mutilation of coins the term commences on the next day after the day on which use has
been made of the object with respect to which the forgery or mutilation of coins has been committed;
2nd-ly, in the crimes described in articles 328, 329, 330 and 333 on the next day after the day of the relaese,
or of the death of the person against whom the crime has been immediately committed;
3rd-ly, in the misdemeanours described in the articles 556 up to and including 558a, on the next day after the
day on which pursuant to the provisions of general regulations laying down that registers of the
registrar’s office be transfered to the record-office of a judicial tribunal, the transfer of the registers from
which the misdemeanour is evident, has taken place.

Article 80
(1) Each act of prosecution arrests the lapse of time, provided that the said act is known to the accused or
made known to him in the manner as determined by general regulations.
(2) After the arrest a new term of lapse of time shall start.

Article 81
The suspension of a penal prosecution in case of a prejudicial dispute shall suspend the lapse of time.

Article 82
(1) The right to prosecute in case of misdemeanours on which no other basic punishment is imposed than
fine, shall lapse by voluntary payment of the maximum of the fine, and of the costs if prosecution has
already taken place, by authorization of the official designated thereto by general regulations within the
term to be determined by him.
(2) If in addition to fine forfeiture is imposed, the objects subjected to the forfeiture shall also be surrendered
of the value at which they are estimated by the official referred to in the first paragraph, shall be paid for.
(3) In the cases where the punishment is enhanced because of recidivism, the enhancement shall also be
applicable if the right to prosecute on account of an earlier commission of the misdemeanour according to
the first and second paragraphs of this article has lapsed.
(4) The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to a minor who has not yet reached the age of sixteen
years before the act has been committed.

Article 83
The right to execution of the punishment shall lapse through the death of the convicted person.

Article 84
(1) The right to execution of the punishment shall lapse through lapse of time.
(2) The term of this lapse of time is in cases of misdemeanours two years, in cases of crimes committed by
means of the press five years, and in cases of other crimes one third in excess of the term of the lapse of

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(3) In no cased the term of the lapse of time shall be shorter than the. duration of the imposed punishment.
(4) The right to the execution of the capital punishment shall not lapse.

Article 85
(1) The term of the lapse of time shall commence to run from the next day after the day on which the judicial
pronouncement may be executed.
(2) In case of escape of a convict during the service of his punishment a new term of lapse of time
commences to run from the next day after the day of escape. In care of revocation of a conditional release
a new term of lapse of time commences to run from the next day after the day of the revocation.
(3) The term shall not run during the suspension of the execution ordered by general regulations, as well as
during the time when the convict, in case of another conviction, has been confined.

CHAPTER IX
Sense of some expressions used in the Code

Article 86
Wherever crime is used in a general or a specific sense complicity and attempt to said crime shall be included,
as far as the contrary does not follow from some provision.

Article 87
“Attempt to commit an act” exist as soon as the intent of the perpetrator has revealed itself by a commencement
of the performance in the sense of article 53.

Article 88
“Conspiracy” exists as soon as two or more persons agree to commit a crime.

Article 88 bis
“Revolution” denotes the destruction or illegal alteration of the constitutional form of government.

Article 89
The commission of violence is identified with bringing a person in a state of unconsciousness or helplessness.

Article 90
“Serious physical injury” denote: illness or injury which does not leave any prospect for a complete recovery or
through which danger of life exists;
continuous incompetence for performing official and professional activities;

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mutilation;
paralysis;
disturbance of the intellectual capabilities which lasted for more than four weeks;
removal or death of the womb of a woman.

Article 91
(1) “Paternal authority” include the authority of the head of the family.
(2) “Parents” include the head of the family.
(3) “Father” also includes the person who exercises an authority similar to the paternal one.
(4) “Child” includes the person who is subject to an authority similar to the paternal one.

Article 92
(1) “Officials” also include all the persons who have been elected in elections held by virtue of general
regulations, as well as all the persons who by other reason than by virtue of an election are members of a
legislative body a governmental body or a body of the peoples representatives formed by or on behalf of
the Government; and further all members of a waterworks and all heads of the Indonesian indigenous
population and heads of the foreign Asiatic group who exercise legal authority.
(2) Officials and judges shall also include arbitrators; judges also include the persons who exercise
administrative legal power, as also the chairmen and members of the religious tribunals.
(3) All persons belonging to the armed forces shall also be considered officials.

Article 92 bis
“Merchant” denotes any person who exercises a business.

Article 93
(1) ”Skipper” is the master of a vessel or the person who substitutes him.
(2) ”Passengers” are all the persons on board the vessel except for the skipper.
(3) “Members of the crew of a vessel” are all the persons who are on board the vessel as marine officers or
ships’s mates.

Article 94
Repealed by act 1946 No. 1.

Article 95
“Indonesian vessel” denotes any vessels which pursuant to general regulations concerning the certificates of
registry and ship’s passes in Indonesia must be provided with a certificate of registry and ship’s passes or
temporary substitutive permits.

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Article 95 a
(1) “Indonesian aircraft” denotes any aircraft registered in Indonesia.
(2) “Indonesian aircraft” includes any foreign aircraft, chartered without crew and put into operation by an
Indonesian airline company.

Article 95 b
“In flight” denotes any time from the moment when all external doors of the aircraft are closed following
embarkation until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation. In the case of a forced landing
the flight shall be considered to continue until the moment when competent authorities take over responsibility
for the aircraft and for the property on board.

Article 95 c
“In service” denotes the period from the beginning of the preflight preparation of the aircraft by ground personnel
or by the crew for a specific flight until twenty four hours after any landing.

Article 96
(1) ”Enemy” includes insurgents. „Enemy” also includes the state or power with which a war is imminent.
(2) ”War” includes hostilities with self-governing regions, as well as civil war.
(3) ”Time of war” includes the time when war is imminent. “Time of war” is also said to exist as soon as the
mobilization of the army has been ordered and as long as the army remains mobilized.

Article 97
“Day” denotes a period of twenty four hours, month a period of thirty days.

Article 98
“Night” denotes the time between sunset and sunrise.

Article 99
“Climbing in” includes the passing through an existing opening in the ground not intended as an entrance of
through a deliberately dug up opening in the ground, as well as the stepping across ditches or danals serving as
enclosures.

Article 100
“False keys” include all tools not destined to be used as a tool to open the lock.

Article 101
“Cattle” denotes one-hoofed animals, ruminants and pigs.

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Article 101 bis
(1) ”Electric works” include works serving to generate, conduct, transfer or deliver electric labour and
safeguarding, fastening, supporting and warning works relating thereto.
(2) “Electric works” do not include telegraph and telephone works.

Article 102
Revoked pursuant to State Gazette 1920 No. 88.2.

Concluding provision
Article 103
The provisions of the first eight Chapters of this Book shall also apply to facts on which punishment is imposed
by other statutory provisions, unless determined otherwise by statute.

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Crimes

CHAPTER I
Crimes against the security of the State

Article 104
The attempt undertaken with intent to deprive the President or Vice President of his life or his liberty or to render
him unfit to govern, shall be punished by capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of
twenty years.

Article 105
Repealed by Act 146 No. 1.

Article 106
The attempt undertaken with intent to bring the territory of the state wholly or partially under foreign domination
or to separate part thereof, shall be punished by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 107
(1) The attempt undertaken with the intent to cause a revolution shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years.
(2) Leaders and originators of an attempt referred to in the first paragraph shall be punished by life
imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 108
(1) Guilty of rebellion and punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years shall be:
1st, the person who takes up arms against the Government;
2nd-ly, the person who with the intent to rebel against the Government, rises with or joins a band which
take up arms against the Government.
(2) Leaders and originators of a rebellion shall be punished by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment
of twenty years.

Article 109
Revoked pursuant to State Gazette 1930 No. 31.

Article 110
(1) The conspiracy to one of the crimes described in articles 104-108 shall be punished by a maximum

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25 / 117 imprisonment of six years.
(2) The same punishment shall apply to the person who with the intent to prepare or facilitate one of the
crimes described in articles 104-108:
1st, tries to induce others to commit the crime, to cause others to commit or participate in the
commission of the crime, to facilitate the crime or to provide opportunity, means or information
relating thereto;
2nd-ly, tries to provide himself or others with the opportunity, means or information for committing the
crime;
3rd-ly, has in store objects of which he know that they are destined for committing the crime;
4th-ly, makes plans ready or is in possession of plans for the execution of the crime intended to be
made known to other person;
5th-ly, tries to hinder, to obstruct or to defeat a measure taken by the Government to prevent or to
suppress the execution of the crime.
(3) The objects referred to in the foregoing paragraph under 3rd-ly may be forfeited.
(4) Not punishable shall be the person from whom it is evident that his intent is merely aimed at the
preparation or facilitation of political changes in the general sense.
(5) If in cases mentioned under section (1) and (2) of this article, the crime really takes place, the punishment
may be doubled.

Article 111
(1) Any person who colludes with either a foreign power or a king or a community, with the intent to induce
them to conduct hostilities or to wage a war against the state, to strengthen them in the intention made up
thereto, thereby promising them assistance or assisting them in their preparations, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.
(2) If the hostilities are committed or the war breaks out, either capital punishment or life imprisonment or a
maximum imprisonment of twenty years shall be imposed.

Article 111 bis
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of six years shall be punished:
1st, any person who colludes with a person or body domiciled outside Indonesia, with the intent to
induce such a person or body to provide aid in preparing, facilitating or causing a revolution, to
strengthen such a person or body in the intention made up thereto, or thereby promising or
providing assistance to such a person or body, or to prepare, to facilitate or to bring about a
revolution;
2nd-ly, any person who imports an object capable of providing material aids in preparing, facilitating or
causing a revolution, if he knows or has earnestly reasons to suspect that it is intended thereto;
3rd-ly, any person who is in possession of or makes as a subject of an agreement, an article capable of
providing material aid in preparing, facilitating or causing a revolution, if he knows or has
earnestly reason to suspect that it is intended thereto and that said article or any other article for

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26 / 117 which it has been substituted, either has been imported with said intention, or has been
intended thereto by or on behalf of a person or body domiciled outside Indonesia.
(2) The articles with which or in respect of which the crimes described in the foregoing paragraph under 2nd-
ly and 3rd-ly have been committed, may be forfeited.

Article 112
Any person who deliberately either reveals or informs or smuggles into the hands of a foreign power, a king or a
community, documents, news or information concerning a case of which he knows that secrecy has been
ordered by the interest of the state, shall be punished by capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.

Article 113
(1) Any person who having in his possession secret documents, maps, plans, drawings or objects relating to
the defense or the external security of Indonesia or having knowledge of the content of such secret
documents or of the form and the composition of such secret objects, deliberately wholly or partially either
reveals said documents or objects, or the content, the form or the composition thereof, or communicate
them to others or smuggles them into the hands of others who are not authorized to take cognizance
thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) If said documents or objects which are in his possession or of which he has knowledge, are because of
his profession, the punishment may be enhanced with one third.

Article 114
Any person through whose negligence the secret documents or objects referred to in article 119, with the
custody or storage of which he is in charge, their form or their composition have been wholly or partially
disclosed or have come into the possession or cognizance of other persons who are not authorized to have
knowledge thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and six months or a maximum
light imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 115
Any person who wholly or partially examines or takes cognizance of secret documents of objects referred to in
article 113, of which he knows or must reasonably suspect that they are not destined to be known by him, or
makes or causes to make copies or abstracts in whichever script or language, prints, portraits or imitations or
does not hand the said documents or objects to an official of the justice or the police or the local government if
he obtains possession thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three years.

Article 116
The conspiracy to commit the crimes described in article 113 and 115 shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year.

Article 117
By a maximum imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs shall be punished the
person who without being thereto authorized:

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27 / 117 1st, deliberately enters into an establishment of the army or navy or a warship through another entrance
than the usual one;
2nd-ly, deliberately enters into a terrain which by or on behalf of the President or by the Military Authority has
been designated as a military terrain, which the entrance is prohibited;
3rd-ly, deliberately produces, collects, possesses, keeps, hides or transports a photographic picture, a
drawing or other data or indications concerning a terrain referred to under 2nd-ly together with all that
is in it.

Article 118
By a maximum imprisonment of two years or a maximum fine of six hundred Rupiahs shall be punished the
person who, without being authorized thereto deliberately produces, collects, possesses, keeps, hides or
transports a photographic picture, a survey, portrait or description or a drawing as well as other data or
indications concerning a matter of military interest.

Article 119
By a maximum imprisonment of one year shall be punished:
1st, any person who takes in somebody, knowing or having reason to suspect that this person without
being authorized thereto has the intention or attempts to obtain knowledge of secret documents or
objects referred to in article 113 or to get himself acquainted with the position, the construction, the
layout, the arrangement, the armament, the provision, the munitions outfit or the strength of defense
works or any other matter of military interest;
2nd-ly, any person who conceals objects of which it is known to him or of which he must reasonably suspect
that they must in whatever manner be of service at the execution of an intention referred to under 1st.

Article 120
If the commission of one of the crimes described in articles 113, 115, 117, 118 and 119 is accompanied with the
use of fraudulent means, such as Reception, disguise, the use of false names or capacities, as well as
accompanied with presentation or acceptance, holding out or promise of gifts, benefits or rewards in whatever
form or by force or threat of force, the punishments of deprivation of liberty may be doubled.

Article 121
Any person who deliberately conducts a negotiation with a foreign power, a king or a community to which he has
been assigned by the Government, to the detriment of the state, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of twelve years.

Article 122
By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished:
1st, any person who in case of a war in which Indonesia is not involved, deliberately perform an action on
account of which the neutrality of the state is endangered, or deliberately breaks a special regulation

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2nd-ly, any person who in time of war intentionally breaks a regulation issued and announced by the
Government in the interest of the security of the state.

Article 123
Any Indonesian subject who voluntarily enters into military service with a foreign power, knowing that it is in war
with Indonesia or in the prospect of a war with Indonesia, in the latter case if the war breaks out, shall be
punished by capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 124
(1) Any person who in time of war intentionally renders assistance to the enemy or prejudices the state
against the enemy, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.
(2) Life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment or twenty years shall be imposed, if the principal:
1st, informs or surrenders a map, plan, drawing or description of military works, or any information
concerning military movements or plans;
2nd-ly, serve the enemy as a spy or harbours a spy.
(3) Capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years shall be imposed, if
the principal:
1st, betrays to the enemy, smuggles into the enemy’s hands, destructs or damages an stronghold or
post, which is reinforced or occupied, a means of communication, a storehouse, a military
provision, or a military, naval or army chest or any part thereof, obstructs, prevents or frustrates
a plan for inundation or another military plan devised or executed for defense or attack.
2nd-ly, causes or facilitates a revolt, mutiny or desertion among the armed forces.

Article 125
The conspiracy to commit one of the crimes described in article 124 shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of six years.

Article 126
By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished any person who in time of war without intent to
render assistance to the enemy or to prejudice the state against the enemy deliberately:
1st, harbours, conceals a spy of the enemy or assists him in his escape;
2nd-ly, instigates or furthers a desertion of a soldier in service of the state.

Article 127
(1) The person who in time of war commits a fraudulent act in the delivery of materials for use of the navy or
the army shall be punished by capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of

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(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who being in charge with the supervision of the
delivery of goods, intentionally allows the fraudulent act.

Article 128
(1) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 104, deprivation of the rights
mentioned in article 35 nos. 1-5 may be pronounced.
(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 106-108, 110-126, deprivation of the
rights mentioned in article 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.
(3) By conviction on account of the crime described in article 127 the offender may be deprived of the
exercise of the profession in which he has committed the crime, and of the rights mentioned in article 35
first to fourthly, and publication of the judicial verdict may be ordered.

Article 129
The punishment imposed on the facts described in the articles 124-127 shall apply if one of the said facts is
committed against or in respect of the allies of the state in a common war.

CHAPTER II
Crimes against the dignity of the President and Vice President

Article 130
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 131
Every factual assault against the person of the President or Vice President which does not fall under a heavier
penal provision shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years.

Articles 132 and 133
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 134
Deliberate insult against the President or Vice President shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six
years a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Articles 135 and 136
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 136 bis

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absence of the insulted person, either in public by acts or not in public but in the presence of more than four
persons, or only in the presence of a third party who is present notwithstanding his own will and who takes
offence of it, by acts as well as by words or in writing.

Article 137
(1) Any person who disseminates, demonstrates openly or puts up a writing or portrait containing an insult
against the President or Vice President with intent to make the contents public or enhance the publicity
thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum fine of
three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime two years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of a similar crime has become final, he may be
deprived of the exercise of said profession.

Article 138
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 139
(1) Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.
(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in article 131, deprivation of the rights mentioned
in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.
(3) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in article 134 deprivation of the rights mentioned
in article 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER III
Crimes against friendly states and against heads and representatives of friendly states

Article 139a
The attempt undertaken with intent to withdraw wholly or partially the territory or another area of a friendly state
from the severeignty of the there established authority, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five
years.

Article 139b
The attempt undertaken with intent to destroy or to illegally alter the established form of government of a friendly
state or another territory of a friendly state, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 139c
The conspiracy to one of the crimes described in articles 139a and 139b shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year and six months.

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31 / 117 Article 140
(1) The attempt on the life or the liberty of a ruling king or another head of a friendly state shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.
(2) If the attempt on said life results in death or is undertaken with premeditation, a life imprisonment or a
maximum imprisonment of twenty years shall be imposed.
(3) If the attempt on said life, undertaken with premeditation, results in death, the capital punishment or life
imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years shall be imposed.

Article 141
Each factual assault against the person of a ruling king or another head of a friendly state, which does not fall
under a more service penal provision, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

Article 142
Deliberate insult against a ruling king or another head of a friendly state shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of five years or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 142a
Any person who violates the national flag of a friendly state shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
four years or a maximum fine of three thousand Rupiahs.

Article 143
Intentional insult against a representative of a foreign power to the Indonesian Government in his capacity, shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 144
(1) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing or portrait containing an insult
against a ruling king or another head of a friendly state or against a representative of a foreign power to
the Indonesian Government in his capacity, with intent to make the insulting content public or to enhance
the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of
three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime, two years
have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of a similar crime has become final, he may
be deprived of the exercise of said profession.

Article 145
(1) By conviction on account of the crime described in article 140, deprivation of the rights mentioned in article
35 first to fifthly may be pronounced.
(2) By conviction on account of the crime described in article 141, deprivation of the rights mentioned in article
35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.
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CHAPTER IV
Crimes concerning the performance of state duties and state rights

Article 146
Any person who with violence or threat of violence disperses a meeting of the legislative body, government body
or peoples representative body formed by or on behalf of the Government, or forces said bodies to adopt or not
to adopt a decision, or removes the chairman or a member from said meeting, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of nine years.

Article 147
Any person who with violence or threat of violence intentionally obstructs the chairman or member of the
legislative body, government body or peoples representative body formed by or on behalf of the Government, to
attend the meeting of said bodies or to fulfil his duty in said bodies free and unimpeded, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.

Article 148
Any person, who on the occasion of an election held by wirtue of a general regulation with violence or threat of
violence intentionally hinders somebody to exercise his franchise free and unimpeded, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 149
(1) Any person who on the occasion of an election held by virtue of a general regulation by gift or promise
bribes somebody either not to exercise his franchise or to exercise it in a certain manner, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) The same punishment shall apply to the elector who by gift or promise allows himself to be bribed to
exercise or not exercise his above mentioned rights.

Article 150
Any person who, on the occasion of an election held by virtue of a general regulation, commits a fraudulent act
by which the vote of an elector becomes null and void or a person other than the one meant by the elector is
designated, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months.

Article 151
Any person who, intentionally giving himself out for another, takes part in an election held by virtue of a general
regulation, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 152
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have been obtained through the voting papers handed in legally or through the legally recorded votes, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years.

Article 153
(1) By conviction on account of the crime described in article 146, deprivation of the rights mentioned in
articles 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.
(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 147-152, deprivation of the rights
mentioned in articles 35 thirdly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER V
Crimes against the public order

Article 153 bis and 153 ter
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 154
The person who publicly gives expression to feelings of hostility, hatred or contempt against the Government of
Indonesia, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years or a maximum fine of three hundred
Rupiahs.

Article 154a
Any person who violates the National Flag of the Republic of Indonesia and the coat of Arms of the Republic of
Indonesia, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of three thousand
Rupiahs.

Article 155
(1) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing where feelings of hostility, hatred
or contempt against the Government of Indonesia are expressed, with intent to give publicity to the
contents or to enhance the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years
and six months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime five years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of a similar crime has become final, he may be
released from the exercise of said profession.

Article 156
The person who publicly gives expression to feelings of hostility, hatred or contempt against one or more groups
of the population of Indonesia, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine
of three hundred Rupiahs.
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descent, nationality or constitutional condition.

Article 156a
By a maximum imprisonment of five years shall be punished any person who deliberately inpublic gives
expression to feelings or commits an act,
a. which frincipally have the character of being at enimity with, abusing or staining a religion, adhered to in
Indonesia;
b. with the intention to prevent a person to adhere to any religion based on the belief of the allmighty God.

Article 157
Any person who disseminated, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing or portrait where feelings of hostility,
hatred or contempt against or among groups of the population of Indonesia are expressed, with intent to give
publicity to the contents or to enhance the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
two years and six months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 158
Any person who causes the holding of an election in Indonesia of a member of a political body in a foreign
country, or who prepares or facilitates in Indonesia such an election, which is to be held either in Indonesia or in
a foreign country, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years or a maximum fine of five hundred
rupiahs.

Article 159
Any person who participates in an election, mentioned in article 158, which is held either in Indonesia or in a
foreign country, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine of one hundred
rupiahs.

Article 160
Any person who orally or in writing incites in public to commit a punishable act, a violent action against the public
authority or any other disobedience, either to a statutory provision or to an official order issued under a statutory
provision, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years or a maximum fine of three hundred
Rupiahs.

Article 161
(1) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing in which is incited to commit a
punishable act, a violent action against the public authority or any other disobedience described in the
foregoing article, with intent to give publicity to the inciting content or to enhance the publicity thereof, shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime five years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of a similar crime has become final, he may be
deprived of the performance of said profession.

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Article 161 bis
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 162
Any person who in public orally or in writing offers to give information opportunity or means for the commission of
a punishable act, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three
hundred Rupiahs.

Article 163
(1) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing in which is offered to provide
information, opportunity or means for the commission of a punishable act, with intent to give publicity to
said offer or to enhance the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four
months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime five years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of a similar crime has become final, he may be
deprived of the performance of said profession.

Article 163 bis
(1) Any person who by one the means mentioned in article 55 under 2 attempts to induce others to commit a
crime, shall, if it does not result in the crime or a punishable attempt thereto, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of six years or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, however on the understanding
that never a punishment shall be pronounced more severe than may be imposed on account of an attempt
to the crime, or, if such attempt is not punishable, on account of the crime itself.
(2) This provision shall not apply to him if it does not result in the crime or a punishable attempt thereto on
account of circumstances depending on his will.

Article 164
Any person having knowledge of a conspiracy to one of the crimes described in articles 104, 106, 107, 108, 113,
115, 124, 187 or 187 bis at a moment when the commission of said crimes may still be prevented, deliberately
omits to give timely adequate notice thereof either to the officers of the justice or police, or to the threatened
person, shall, if the crime was committed, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four
months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 165
(1) Any person, having knowledge of an intention to commit one of the crimes described in articles 104, 106,
107, 108, 110 – 113, 115. 129 and 131, desertion in time of war, military treason, robbery on people or
rape, the one of the crimes described in Chapter VII of this Act as far as danger of life is thereby caused,
or the commission of one of the crimes described in articles 264 and 275 as far as it concerns credit paper
destined for circulation, at a moment when the commission of these crimes may still be prevented,
intentionaly neglects to give timely adequate notice thereof either to the officers of the justice or police, or
to the threatened person, shall, if the crime was committed, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

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36 / 117 (2) The same punishment shall apply to any person who, having knowledge of an already committed crime
mentioned in the first paragraph whereby danger of life has arisen, intentionally neglects to give similar
notice thereof at a moment when the consequences may still be averted.

Article 166
The provisions of articles 164 and 165 shall not be applicable to any person who by giving the notice would
endanger himself, one of his blood relatives or persons allied by marriage in the straight line or in the second or
third degree of the side-line, his spouse or ex-spouse, or another with whose prosecution he, owing to his office
or profession, would be able excuse himself from giving evidence, to be prosecuted.

Article 167
(1) Any person who illegally forces his way into the dwelling or the enclosed room or grounds, used by
another, or staying there illegally does not move away immediately at the demand of or on behalf of the
rightful claimant, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of
three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) Any person who has forced an entrance by means of breaking or climbing in, false keys, a false order or a
false constume, or who, without prior knowledge of the rightful claimant and having entered otherwise than
by mistake, is found there by night, shall be deemed to have forced his way into it.
(3) If he expresses threats or uses-‘ means capable of intimidation, he shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year and four months.
(4) The punishments laid down in the first and third paragraph may be intensified by one third, if two or more
united persons commit the crime.

Article 168
(1) Any person who illegally forces his way into a room destined for public service or staying there illegally
does not immediately move away at the demand of the authorized official, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) The person who has forced an entrance by means of breaking or climbing in, false keys, a false order or a
false costume, or who, without prior knowledge of the authorized official and having entered otherwise
than by mistake, is found there by night, shall be deemed to have forced his way into it.
(3) If he expresses threats or makes use of means capable of intimidation, he shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.
(4) The punishments laid down in the first and third paragraph may be intensified by one third, if two or more
united persons commit the crime.

Article 169
(1) Participation in an association which has intent to commit crimes or in another association prohibited by
general regulations, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.
(2) Participation in an association which has the intent to commit misdemeanours shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(3) In respect of the founders or directors said punishments may be enhanced with one third.

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37 / 117 Article 170
(1) Persons who with united forces openly commit violence against persons or property, shall be punished by
a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months.
(2) The offenders shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if he intentionally destroys property or of the
violence committed by him results in a physical injury;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine years, if said violence results in a serious physical injury;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if said violence results in death.
(3) Article 89 shall not be applicable.

Article 171
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

Article 172
The person who intentionally disturbs the public tranquillity by cries or signals of false alarm shall be punished by
a maximum imprisonment of three weeks or a maximum fine of sixty Rupiahs.

Article 173
Any person who by violence or threat of violence hinders a lawful public meeting shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of one year.

Article 174
Any person who by causing disorder or making noise with deliberate intent disturbs a lawful public meeting shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three weeks or a maximum fine of sixty Rupiahs.

Article 175
Any person who by violence of threat of violence obstructs either a lawful public religious meeting, or a lawful
religious ceremony or funeral ceremony, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four
months.

Article 176
Any person who by causing disorder or making noise with deliberate intent obstructs either a lawful public
religious meeting, or a lawful religious or funeral ceremony, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
one month and two weeks or a maximum fine of hundred and twenty Rupiahs.

Article 177
By a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of one hundred and twenty

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1st, any person who ridicules a minister of the religion in the lawful observation of his service;
2nd-ly, any person who jeers at objects dedicated to a divine workship, where and when the exercise of said
worship is lawful.

Article 178
Any person who with deliberate intent obstructs or hinders the lawful entrance to a grave-yard or the lawful
conveyance of dead body to a graveyard, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one month and two
weeks or a maximum fine of hundred and twenty Rupiahs.

Article 179
Any person who with deliberate intent defaces a grave or with deliberate intent and illegally destroys or damages
a memorial constructed at a graveyard shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four
months.

Article 180
Any person who with deliberate intent and illegally digs up and takes away a corpse or removes or carries a dug
up or removed corpse, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months of maximum
fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 181
Any person who buries, hides, carries away or removes a dead body, with intent to conceal the death or the
birth, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred
Rupiahs.

CHAPTER VI
Duelling

Article 182
Shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months:
1. any person who incites another to give a challenge to a duel or makes another to accept said challenge, if
there upon a dual follows;
2. any person who intentionally gives a challenge to a duel, if there upon a duel follows.

Article 183
Shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs, any
person who publicly or at the presence of another, reproaches or holds up to ridicule a person for not having
given a challenge to a duel or for having refused to accept said challenge.

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Article 184
(1) Any person who does not physically injure his adversary in a duel shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of nine months.
(2) Any person who physically injures his adversary shall be punished by a maximum Imprisonment of one
year and four months.
(3) Any person who physically seriously injures his adversary shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of four years.
(4) Any person who kills his adversary shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years or if it
has been agreed to fight the duel to the death.
(5) The attempt to fight a duel shall not be punished.

Article 185
To any person who kills or physically injures his adversary in a duel the provisions on murder, homicide or
maltreatment shall apply:
1. if the conditions have not been previously arranged;
2. if the duel does not take place at the presence of martual second;
3. if the perpetrator, intentionally and to the detriment of the adversary, commits any act of deceit or deviates
from the conditions.

Article 186
(1) The seconds and physicians who attend to a duel are not punishable.
(2) The seconds shall be punished:
1. by a maximum imprisonment of three years, if the conditions of the duel have not been previously
arranged or if they incite both parties to continue the duel;
2. by a maximum imprisonment of four years if they intentionally and to the detriment of one or both
parties, are guilty of any act of deceit or allow any act of deceit, or allow deviations from the
conditions of the duel.
(3) The provisions on murder, homicide or maltreatment apply to the second in a duel in which one of the
parties has been killed or has been physically injured, if he intentionally and to the detriment of said party,
has rendered oneself guilty of any act of deceit or has allowed any act of deceit or has allowed to deviate
from the conditions of the duel to the detriment of the deceased or injured person.

CHAPTER VII
Crimes whereby the general security of persons or property is endangered

Article 187
Any person who with deliberate intent sets fire, causes an explosion or causes a flood, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years if thereby general danger to property is feared;

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40 / 117 2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years if thereby danger of life for another is feared;
3rd-ly, by life imprisonment or a maximum temporary imprisonment of twenty years if thereby danger of life
for another is feared and the act results in the death of someone.

Article 187 bis
(1) The person who produces, receives, tries to procure, has in store, conceals, transports or imports into
Indonesia stuffs, objects or tools of which he knows or reasonably must suspect that they are intended or
will occasionally be used cause an explosion, whereby danger of life or general danger to property is
feared, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years or a maximum light imprisonment of
one year.
(2) The defectiveness of the stuffs, objects or tools referred to in the foregoing paragraph, in causing an
explosion above described, shall not exempt from liability to punishment.

Article 187 ter
The conspiracy to one of the crimes described in articles 187 and 187 bis shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of five years.

Article 188
Any person through whose fault is caused fire, explosion or flood shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of five years or a maximum light imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if
thereby common danger for property or danger of life for another person arises or if the fact results in the death
of a person.

Article 189
Any person who with deliberate intent at the moment or in prospect of a fire unlawfully hides or makes useless
tools or means of fire extinction, or in a certain manner hinders or obstructs the extinction of fire, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

Article 190
Any person who with deliberate intent at the time or in prospect of an inundation unlawfully hides or makes
useless dike materials or tools defeats an attempt to repair dikes or other water works, or thwarts the means
employed to prevent or stop the flood, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

Article 191
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys, makes useless or damages a work serving as a weir or drainage
shall, if therefrom danger of flood is feared, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

Article 191 bis
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys, damages or makes useless an electrical work, cause
disturbance in the running or operation of such work, or frustrates or hampers a safety or repair measure taken

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1st, by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine or three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby
hindrance or obstruction arises in the delivery of electric power for general use;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if therefrom common danger for property is feared;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine years, if thereby danger of life for another is feared;
4th-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if therefrom danger of life for another is feared and the
fact results in the death of a person.

Article 191 ter
Any person through whose fault an electrical work is destroyed, damaged or rendered useless, the disturbance
in the running or operation of such work is caused, or a safety or repair measure taken in respect of such work is
frustrated or obstructed, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum light imprisonment of three
months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby hindrance or obstruction in the
delivery of electric power for general use or common danger for property arises;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a
maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby danger of life for another arises;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of a year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year,
if the fact results in the death of a person.

Article 192
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys, renders useless or damages a work serving for public traffic,
blocks a public land or waterroad, or frustrates a safety measure taken in respect of such work or of such road,
shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of nine years, if therefrom danger for the safety of the traffic is feared;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if therefrom danger for the safety of the traffic is feared
and the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 193
Any person through whose fault a work serving for public traffic is destroyed, rendered useless or damaged, a
public land or waterroad is blocked, or a safety measure taken in respect of such work or of such road is
frustrated, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum light imprisonment of three
months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby the traffic becomes unsafe;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of a year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year,
if the fact results in the death of any person.

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42 / 117 Article 194
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent causes danger for the public traffic by means of a steam power or
other mechanical motive power over a rail- or tramway, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
fifteen years.
(2) If the fact results in the death of any person, the offender shall be punished by life imprisonment or a
maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 195
(1) Any person through whose fault danger for the public traffic is caused by steam power or other
mechanical motive power over a rail or tramway shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment of nine
months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs;
(2) If the fact results in the death of any person, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year.

Article 196
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys, damages, removes or moves away a signal placed for the safety
of the navigation, frustrates its operation or places a wrong signal shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if therefrom danger for the safety of the navigation is
feared;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if therefrom danger for the safety of the navigation is
feared and the fact results in the sinking or stranding of a vessel;
3rd-ly, by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, if therefrom danger for the safety of
the navigation is feared and the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 197
Any persons through whose fault a signal placed for the safety of the navigation is destroyed, damaged, taken
away or removed or its operation is frustrated or a wrong signal is placed, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum light imprisonment of three
months or maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby the navigation becomes unsafe;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a
maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if the fact results in the sinking or stranding of a vessel;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one
year, if the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 198
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully causes a vessel to sink or strand, or destroys, renders
useless or damages a vessel, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if therefrom danger of life for another is feared;

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43 / 117 2nd-ly, by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, if therefrom danger of life for
another is feared and the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 199
Any person by whose negligence a vessel sinks or strands or is destroyed, rendered useless or damaged, shall
be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a
maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby danger of life for another arises;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one
year, if the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 200
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys or damages a building or a structure shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if therefrom common danger for property is feared;
2nd-ly, by a .maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if therefrom danger of life for another is feared;
3rd-ly, by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, if therefrom danger of life for
another is feared and the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 201
Any person through whose fault a building or structure is destroyed or damaged shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum light imprisonment of three
months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby common danger for property arises;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a
maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs, if thereby danger of life for another arises;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of• one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one
year, if the fact results in the death of any person.

Article 202
(1) Any person who puts any substance in a well, pump, spring or in a drinking water establishment to be
used for general or common use or to be used together with others, knowing that because of it the water
becomes harmful to life or health, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.
(2) If the fact results in the death of a person, the offender shall be punished by life imprisonment or a
maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 203
(1) Any person through whose fault any substance is put in a well, pump, spring or in a drinking water

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44 / 117 establishment to be used for the general good or common use or to be used together with others, by
which the water becomes harmful to life or to health, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the fact results in the death of a person, the offender shall be punished with a maximum light
imprisonment of one year.

Article 204
(1) Any person who sells, offers for sale, delivers or distributes goods, knowing that they are harmful to life or
to health and conceals said harmful nature, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen
years.
(2) If the fact results in the death of any person, the offender shall be punished by life imprisonment or a
maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 205
(1) Any person through whose fault goods harmful to life or to health are sold, delivered or distributed without
knowledge of the buyer or the person who acquires the goods of said harmful nature, shall be punished by
a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a maximum
fine of three hundred Rupiahs.
(2) If the fact results in the death of any person, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year.
(3) The goods may be confiscated.

Article 206
(1) By conviction on account of a crime described in this Chapter, the offender may be deprived of the
exercise of the profession in which he has committed the crime.
(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 204 and 205, the judge may order the
publication of his verdict.

CHAPTER VIII
Crimes against public authority

Article 207
Any person who with deliberate intent in public, orally or in writing, insults an authority or a public body set up in
Indonesia, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and six months or a maximum fine of
three hundred Rupiahs.

Article 208
(1) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing or portrait containing an insult
against an authority or public body set up in Indonesia with intent to give publicity to the insulting content
or to enhance the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months or a
maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs.

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45 / 117 (2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime two years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of the person on account of a similar crime has become final,
he may be deprived of said profession.

Article 209
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred Rupiahs
shall be punished:
1st, any person who gives a gift or makes a promise to an official with intent to move him to commit
or omit something in his service contrary to his duty;
2nd-ly, any person who gives a gift to an official following or in pursuance of what this official has
committed or omitted in his service in contravention of his duty.
(2) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 nos. 1-4 may be pronounced.

Article 210
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished:
1st, any person who gives a gift or makes a promise to a judge with intent to exercise influence on
the decision on a case which has been submitted to his judgement;
2nd-ly, any person who gives a gift or makes a promise to a person who by virtue of statutory
provisions has been designated counsellor or advisor to attend the sessions of a court, with
intent to exercise influence upon the advice or opinion to be brought out by him concerning a
case which has been submitted to the judgement of the court.
(2) If said gift is given or promise is made with intent to obtain a verdict in a criminal case, the offender shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.
(3) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

Article 211
Any person who by violence or threat of violence resists an official to perform an official exercise or to omit a
lawful official exercise shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 212
Any person who by violence threat of violence resists an official acting in the lawful performance of his official
duties, or persons who thereby aid him by virtue of statutory obligations or at his request, shall, being guilty of
rebelliousness, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum fine of
three hundred rupiahs.

Article 213
Coercion and the rebelliousness described in articles 211 and 212 shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if the crime or the accompanying assault and battery

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2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of eight years and six months, if it results in a serious physical injury;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if it results in death.

Article 214
(1) Coercion and rebelliousness described in articles 211 and 212, committed by two or more persons with
united forces, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) The offender shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of eight years and six months if the committed crime or the assault
and battery thereby committed by him results in a physical injury;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if it results in a serious physical injury;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if it results in death.

Article 215
With officials shall in respect of articles 211. 214 be identified:
1st, the persons who by virtue of statutory provision are continuously or temporarily charged with a public
office;
2nd-ly, the executives together with the sworn in functionaries and servants of railway services and of tram
services for public traffic, whereby the transportation takes place by steam power or orther mechanical
motive power.

Article 216
(1) The person who with deliberate intent does not obey a command or a demand issued under statutory
provision by an official charged with the exercise of a supervision or by an official charged with or declared
qualified for the tracing or examination of punishable facts, and also the person who with deliberate intent
stops, obstruct or frustrates an act performed by one of said officials for the execution of a statutory
provision, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum
fine of six hundred rupiahs.
(2) With the official referred to in the first part of the foregoing paragraph shall be identified any person who is,
by virtue of statutory provision, continuously or temporarily charged with a public office.
(3) If during the commission of the crime two years have not, yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of the
person found guilty on account of a similar crime has become final, the sentences may be enhanced with
one third.

Article 217
The person who creates a sensation at a trial or at the place where an official publicly is acting in the lawful
performance of his official duties and does not move away after the order given by or on behalf of the competent
authority, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three weeks or a maximum fine of hundred and

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Article 218
The person who with deliberate intent on the occasion of a streeterowd does not immediately move away after
the third order given by or on behalf of the competent authority shall, being guilty of participation in a riotous
assembly, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of six
hundred rupiahs.

Article 219
The person who unlawfully tears off, makes illegible or damages an announcement put up in public on behalf of
the competent authority or by virtue of a statutory provision, with intent to prevent or obstruct the cognizance
thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one months or a maximum fine of three hundred
rupiahs.

Article 220
Any person who gives notice or lodges a complaint that a punishable fact has been committed, knowing that it
has not been committed, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 221
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be
punished:
1st, the person who with deliberate intent hides somebody who is guilty or is prosecuted on account
of a crime, or who aids him in escaping from the investigation of or apprehension by the officers
of the justice or police, or by other persons who by virtue of statutory provision are continuously
or temporarily assigned police duties;
2nd-ly, Any person who after a crime has been committed, with intent to conceal it or to prevent or to
obstruct its investigation or prosecution, destroys, removes, hides objects upon which or with
which the crime has been committed or other traces of the crime, or withdraws them from the
examination either by the officers of the justice or police or by other persons who by virtue of
statutory provision are continuously or temporarily assigned police duties.
(2) The said provisions shall not be applicable to any person who performs the acts mentioned therein in
order to escape or avert danger of prosecution of one of his blood relatives or persons allied by marriage
in the straight line or in the second or third degree of the side-line of his spouse or ex-spouse.

Article 222
Any person who with deliberate intent prevents, obstructs or frustrates a judicial post-mortem examination shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 223
Any person who with deliberate intent sets free a person who by public authority or by virtue of a judicial verdict
or decree has been deprived of his liberty or aids him in his escape, shall be punished by a maximum impri-

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Article 224
Any person who, statutorily summoned as a witness, as an expert or as an interpreter, deliberately disobeys a
statutory duty which be has to fulfil as such, shall be punished:
1st, in criminal cases by a maximum imprisonment of nine months:
2nd-ly, in other cases by a maximum imprisonment of six months.

Article 225
Any person who with deliberate intent disobeys a lawful command to produce a document which is alleged to be
false or forged or which must serve as a comparison with another document which is alleged to be false or
forged or of which the authenticity is denied or not recognized, shall be punished:
1st, in criminal cases by a maximum imprisonment of nine months;
2nd-ly, in other cases by a maximum imprisonment of six months.

Article 226
Any person who, declared to be in a state of bankruptcy or obvious insolvency, or as the spouse of a bankrupt
with whom he is married, in community of goods, or as an executive or commissioner of a partnership, company,
association or foundation, declared bankrupt, statutorily summoned to give informations, either with deliberate
intent stays away without valid reasons, or refuses to give the desired informations, or with deliberate intent
gives wrong informations, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 227
Any person who exercises a right, knowing that he is by judicial verdict deprived thereof, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.

Article 228
Any person who with deliberate intent wears distinguishing marks or performs an act belonging to an office that
he does not hold or from which he has been suspended, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two
years or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 229
Any person who with deliberate intent keeps a state which is related to a rank or title that does not belong to him,
shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three
hundred rupiahs.

Article 230
Repealed by Act 1946 No. 1.

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Article 231
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent withdraws an article from the seizure under statutory provision or
from a judicial sequestration, or hides an article, knowing that it has been withdrawn therefrom, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) By the same sentence shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent destroys, damages or
makes useless an article that has been seized under statutory provision.
(3) The care-taker who with deliberate intent commits or allows one of the acts, or aids the principal as an
accomplice, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.
(4) If one of the acts has been committed as a results of the negligence of the care-taker, this person shall be
punished by a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of hundred and twenty
rupiahs.

Article 232
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent breaks, removes or damages seals with which articles by or on
behalf of the competent public authority are put under seal, or frustrates in any other way the closure
effected by such seal, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.
(2) The care-taker who with deliberate intent commits or allows the act or aids the principal as an accomplice,
shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(3) If the act has been committed as a result of the care-taker’s negligence, this person shall be punished by
a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of hundred and twenty rupiahs.

Article 233
Any person who with deliberate intent destroys, damages, makes useless or removes articles intend to serve as
a conviction or an evidence for the competent authority, deeds, documents or registers which are continuously or
temporarily kept by public authority, or handed either to an official or to another in the interest of the public
service, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 234
Any person who with deliberate intent withdraws from their destination, opens or damages letters or other
documents delivered to a post- or telegraph-office or put in a post-office box, or trusted to a courier, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 235
If the offender of one of the crimes described in articles 231 – 234 procures entrance to the place of the crime or
brings the article within his reach by means of breaking in, violation or climbing in, false keys, a false order or a
false costume, the sentence may be enhanced with a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 236
Any person who, in time of peace, with deliberate intent inspires, by one of the means mentioned in article 55
secondly, or facilitates in a manner mentioned in article 56, desertion by a soldier in service with the state, shall

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Article 237
Any person who, in time of -peace, with deliberate intent provokes by one of the means mentioned in article 55
secondly, or facilitates in a manner mentioned in article 56, a rebellion or mutiny by soldiers in service with the
state, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

Article 238
Any person who without the consent of the President recruits a person for foreign military service shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum fine of three thousand
rupiahs.

Article 239
Any person who, recruits an Indonesian subject to perform labour or to give object performances from the life of
the people, something or other outside Indonesia, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six months
or a maximum fine of three thousand rupiahs.

Article 240
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months shall be punished:
1st, any person who with deliberate intent makes himself or causes another to make him unsuitable
to fulfil the obligations mentioned in article 30 of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia:
2nd-ly, any person who at the request of another with deliberate intent renders the other person
unsuitable to fulfil said obligations.
(2) If in the latter case the act results in death, a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be imposed.

Article 241
By a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, repealed pursuant to State Gazette 1956 No. 28;
2nd-ly, any person who in cases that a way-bill is required for the transportation of cattle, with deliberate
intent uses for the transportation thereof a way-bill issued for another animal, as if it were issued for
the animal that he carries.

CHAPTER IX
Perjury and false testimony

Article 242
(1) Any person who in the cases that a statutory provision demands a testimony under oath or attaches legal

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testimony under oath, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) If the false testimony under oath is made in a criminal case detrimental to the accused or suspect, the
offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.
(3) With the oath shall be identified the promise or affirmation which by virtue of general regulations is
required or is made in lieu of the oath.
(4) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

Article 243
Repealed pursuant to State Gazette 1931 No. 240.

CHAPTER X
Counterfeit of coins and currency and bank notes

Article 244
Any person who counterfeits or falsifies coins or currency or bank notes with intent to utter or cause to utter said
coins or currency or bank notes like genuine and unfalsified ones, shall be punished by a maximum imprison-
ment of fifteen years.

Article 245
Any person who with deliberate intent utters as genuine and unfalsified coins or currency or bank notes which he
has counterfeited or falsified himself, or of which the falseness or falsification was known to him when he
received them, or has them in store or imports them into Indonesia with intent to utter or to cause to utter them
as genuine and unfalsified, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 246
Any person who diminished the value of coins with intent to utter or to cause to utter them thus diminished in
value, shall, being guilty of mutilation of coins, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 247
Any person who with deliberate intent utters as unmutilated coins which he himself has mutilated or of which the
mutilation was known to him when he received them, or has said coins in store or imports them into lating coins
or for counterfeiting or falsifying currency- or bank notes, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
twelve years.

Article 248
Repealed pursuant to State Gazette 1938 No, 593.

Article 249

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bank notes, shall, except for the provisions in articles 245 and 247, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 250
Any person who produces or has in store materials or instruments of which he knows that they are intended for
counterfeiting, falsifying or mutilating coins or for counterfeiting or falsifying currency or bank notes, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 250 bis
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in this chapter:
the false, falsified or mutilated coins,
the false or falsified currency or bank notes,
the materials or instruments, by their nature intended for counterfeiting,
falsifying or mutilating coins or for counterfeiting or falsifying currency or bank notes, as far as therewith the
crime has been committed or they have been the object of the crime, shall be confiscated, likewise if they do not
belong to the convicted person.

Article 251
Any person who with deliberate intent and without a written permit of the Government has in store or imports into
Indonesia silver slices or plates, whether or not provided with a stamp and suitable after being stamped,
restamped or after any other processing, or to be taken for coins and which are obviously not intended to serve
as ornaments or as commemorative medals, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year or a
maximum fine of ten thousand rupiahs.

Article 252
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 244-247 deprivation of the rights mentioned in
article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XI
Forgery of seals and marks

Article 253
By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished:
1st, any person who forges or falsifies seals issued by the Indonesian government, or if for the validity of
these seals is required a signature, forges or falsifies this signature with intent to use or to cause
others to use said seals a genuine and unfalsified or as valid;
2nd-ly, any person who with similar intent produces such seals by illegally making use of genuine stamps.

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By a maximum imprisonment of six years shall be punished:
1st, any person who affixes false state marks or statutorily required master-signs or falsifies genuine ones
on gold or silver works with intent to use or to cause others to use said works as if the thereon affixed
marks or signs were genuine and unfalsified;
2nd-ly, the person who with similar intent affixes marks or signs on works referred to by illegally making use
of genuine stamps:
3rd-ly, any person who sets, adds or transfers genuine state marks or statutorily required master-signs in, to
or onto other gold or silver works than those to which they have been originally affixed, with intent to
use or to cause others to use those works as if the marks or signs referred to had been originally
affixed thereto.

Article 255
By a maximum imprisonment of four years shall be punished:
1st, any person who affixes false Indonesian gauge-marks or falsifies genuine ones on articles of which
the gauge is obligatory or which are at the request of parties interested admitted to the gauge or re-
gauge, with intent to use or to cause others to use said articles as if the marks affixed thereon were
genuine and unfalsified;
2nd-ly, any person who with similar intent affixes marks on articles referred to by illegally making use of
genuine stamps;
3rd-ly, any person who sets, adds or transfers genuine Indonesian gauge-marks in, to or onto other articles
than those to which they have been originally affixed, with intent to use or to cause others to use said
articles as if the marks referred to had been originally affixed thereto.

Article 256
By a maximum imprisonment of three years shall be punished:
1st, the person who falsely affixes other marks than those referred to in articles 254 and 255 which by
virtue of a statutory provision must or may be affixed to articles or their packing, or falsifies genuine
ones with intent to use or to cause others to use said articles as if the marks affixed thereto were
genuine and unfalsified;
2nd-ly, any person who with similar intent affixes marks on articles referred to or their packing by illegally
making use of genuine stamps;
3rd-ly, any person who uses genuine marks for articles or their packing for which those marks are not meant,
with intent to use or to cause others to use said articles as if the marks referred to were meant
therefor.

Article 257
Any person who with deliberate intent uses, sells, offers for sale, delivers, has in store for sale or imports into
Indonesia false, falsified or illegally produced seals, signs or marks, or the articles to which they are illegally

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attached to the articles, shall be punished by the same sentences as laid down in articles 253-256, according to
the distinctions made in those articles.

Article 258
(1) The person who falsifies measures, weights or weighing tools after they have been provided with a gauge-
mark, with intent to use or to cause others to use them as genuine and unfalsified, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of three years.
(2) By the same sentence shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of falsified
measures, weights or weighing tools as if they were genuine and unfalsified.

Article 259
(1) Any person who removes the reject-mark from a gauged article to which it has been affixed with intent to
use or to cause others to use the article as if it were not rejected, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year and four months.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished the person who with deliberate intent uses, sells, offers for
sale, delivers or has in store for sale an article from which the reject-mark has been removed as if it were
not rejected.

Article 260
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who removes from stamps issued or behalf of the Indonesian Government, which
have already been used, the mark destined for making them unsuitable of further use, with
intent to use or to cause others to use said stamps as if they had not been used;
2nd-ly, any person who with similar intent removes from stamps issued on behalf of the Indonesian
Government which have already been used, the signature, the hallmark or the indication of the
moment of use which has been affixed on or over those stamps under a statutory provision.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished the person who deliberately uses, sells, offers for sale,
delivers, has in store for sale or imports into Indonesia stamps from which has been removed said mark,
signature, hallmark or indication as if they had not been used.

Article 260 bis
The provisions of articles 253, 256, 257 and 260 shall according to the distinctions made therein also be
applicable, if the acts described in said articles are committed in respect of stamps or marks in use with the
postal services of Indonesia or in a foreign state.
If, however, one of said crimes is committed in respect of stamps or marks in use with the postal services of a
foreign state, the maximum of the bask punishment of the crime shall be mitigated by one third.

Article 261
(1) Any person who has in store materials or instruments of which he knows that they are intended to commit
a crime described in article 253 or in article 260 bis in connection with article 253, shall be punished by a

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(2) The materials and instruments shall be forfeited.

Article 262
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in article 253-260 bis, deprivation of the rights
mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XII
Forgery of writings

Article 263
(1) Any person who forges or falsifies a writing from which a title, a contract or a release from debt may arise,
or which is intended to serve as evidence of a fact, with intent to use or to cause others to use it as
genuine and unfalsified, shall, if from said use may result an injury, being guilty of forgery of writing, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished the person who with deliberate intent makes use of the false
or falsified writing as if it were genuine and unfalsified, if from said use may result an injury.

Article 264
(1) Any person guilty of forgery of writing shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years, if it is
committed:
1st, in authentic deeds;
2nd-ly, in debentures or certificates of debts of a state or part thereof or of a public institution;
3rd-ly, in shares or debentures or share certificates or debt certificates of an association, foundation,
partnership or company;
4th-ly, in counterfoils, dividend or interest evidences belonging to one of the documents described
under both or the foregoing numbers, or in evidence issued in substitution for these documents;
5th-ly, in credit or commercial papers intended for circulation.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of a false or
falsified writing mentioned in the first paragraph as if it were genuine and unfalsified, if from said use an
injury may result.

Article 265
Repealed pursuant to State Gazette 1926 No. 359.

Article 266
(1) Any person who causes to insert a false statement in an authentid deed concerning a fact, the truth of
which the deed must give proof, with intent to use or to cause others to use said deed as if his statement

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imprisonment of seven years.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of the deed
as if the contents were in accordance with the truth, if from said use an injury may result.

Article 267
(1) The physician who with deliberate intent issues a false written certificate as to whether or not illness,
weakness, or infirmity exists or has existed, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) If the certificate is made with intent to cause a person to be admitted to or withheld from a lunatic asylum,
a maximum imprisonment of eight years and six months shall be imposed.
(3) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of the false
certificate as if the contents were in accordance with the truth.

Article 268
(1) Any person who forges or falsifies a written medical certificate concerning whether or not illness,
weakness or infirmity exists or has existed with intent to deceive the public authority or insurance
company, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with similar intent makes use of the false or
falsified certificate as if it were genuine and unfalsified.

Article 269
(1) Any person who forges or falsifies a certificate of good behaviour, capability, poverty, infirmity or other
circumstances, with intent to use or to cause others to use it for the acquisition of an employment of for
arousing benevolence and assistance, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and
four months.
(2) By the same sentence shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of a false or
falsified certificate mentioned in the first paragraph.

Article 270
(1) Any person who forges of falsifies a travel permit or a writing that substitutes a travel permit, a safety card,
a travel order or a writing issued according to the statutory provisions on the admission and residence of
foreigners in Indonesia, or who causes to issue such a document on a false name or Christian name, or
with indication of a false capacity, with intent to use or to cause others to use it as if it were genuine and
unfalsified or as if the contents were in accordance with the truth, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of two years and eight months.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of a false or
falsified document mentioned in the first paragraph as if it were genuine and unfalsified or as if the
contents were in accordance with the truth.

Article 271
(1) Any person who forges or falsifies a way-bill for buffaloes and cows, or who causes to issue such a
document on a false name or Christian name, or with indication of a false capacity, with intent to use or to

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the truth, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who deliberately makes use of a false or falsified
document mentioned in the first paragraph as if It were genuine and unfalsified or as if the content were in
accordance with the truth.

Articles 272 and 273
Repealed pursuant to State Gazette 1926 No. 359.

Article 274
(1) Any person who forges of falsifies a written certificate by an official who exercises legal authority
concerning the ownership of or concerning another title to a property with intent to facilitate the alienation
or pledging thereof or to deceive officials of the justice or police with respect to its origin, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of two years.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any person who with similar intent makes use of the false or
falsified declaration as if it were genuine and unfalsified.

Article 275
(1) Any person who has in store materials or instruments of which he knows that they are intended for the
commission of a crime described in article 264 secondly to fifthly, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) The materials and instruments shall be forfeited.

Article 276
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 263-268 deprivation of the rights mentioned in
article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XIII
Crimes against the civil status of persons

Article 277
(1) Any person who by an act with deliberate intent obscures the descent of another person, shall, being
guilty of obscuration of state, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.
(2) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

Article 278
Any person who acknowledges a child whom he knows that he is not its father, as his child according to the
provisions of the Civil Code, shall, being guilty of false acknowledgment, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of three years.

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Article 279
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of five years shall be punished:
1st, any person who enters into marriage knowing that his existing marriage or marriages present a
legal barrier against it;
2nd-ly, any person who enters into marriage, knowing that the existing marriage or marriages of the
counterpart present a legal barrier against it.
(2) If the person who is guilty of the fact described under 1st, has concealed to the counterpart that his
existing marriage or marriages present a legal barrier against it, he shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.
(3) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fifthly may be pronounced.

Article 280
Any person who enters into marriage, with deliberate intent concealing to the counterpart that a legal barrier
exists against it, shall, if on the ground of said barrier the nullity of said marriage has been pronounced, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

CHAPTER XIV
Crimes againts decency

Article 281
By a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of three thousand rupiahs shall
be punished:
1st, any person who with deliberate intent publicly offends against decency;
2nd-ly, the person who with deliberate intent offends against decency whereby another person is present in
spite of himself.

Article 282
(1) Any person who either disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing of which he knows the
content or a portrait or object known to him to be offensive against decency, or produces, imports,
conveys in transit, exports or has in store, or openly or by dissemination of a writing, unrequestedly offers
or indicates that said writing, portrait or object is procurable, in order that it be disseminated, openly
demonstrated or put up, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a
maximum fine of three thousand rupiahs.
(2) Any person who disseminates, openly demonstrates or puts up a writing, a portrait or an object offensive
to decency, or produces imports, conveys in transit, exports or has in store, or openly or by dissemination
of a writing unrequestedly offers or indicates that said writing, portrait or object is procurable, in order that
it be disseminated, openly demonstrated or put up, shall, if he has serious reasons for suspecting that the
writing, portrait or object is offensive to decency, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine
months or a maximum fine of three thousand rupiahs.

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59 / 117 (3) If the offender makes an occupation or a habit of the commission of the crime described in the first
paragraph, a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of five thousand
rupiahs may be imposed.

Article 283
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs shall be punished
any person who offers, hands over permanently or temporarily, hands to or shows to a minor of whom he
knows or reasonably must suspect that it has not yet reached the age of seventeen years, either a writing,
a portrait or an article offensive against decency, or a means to prevent or a means to curb the pregnancy,
if the contents of the writing, or if the portrait, the article of the means are known to him.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished the person who in the presence of a minor as referred to in the
foregoing paragraph, reads out the contents of a writing offensive against decency, if this is known to him.
(3) By a maximum imprisonment of four months or a maximum light imprisonment of three months or a
maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs shall be punished any person who offers, hands over permanently or
temporarily, hands to or shows to a minor as referred to in the first paragraph either a writing, a portrait or
an article offensive against decency, or a means to prevent or a means to curb the pregnancy, or reads
out the contents of a wilting offensive against decency in the presence of a minor as referred to in the first
paragraph, if he has serious reasons to suspect that the writing, the portrait or the article is offensive
against decency or that the means is a means to prevent or to curb pregnancy.

Article 283 bis
If the offender commits one of the crimes described in articles 282 and 283 in his profession and during the
commission of the crime two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction on account of one of the
crimes has become final, he may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.

Article 284
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of nine months shall be punished:
1. a. any married man who knowing that article 27 of the Civil Code is applicable to him, commits
adultery;
b. any married woman who commits adultery;
2. a. any man who takes a direct part in the act knowing that the guilty co-partner is married;
b. any unmarried woman who takes a direct part in the act knowing that the guilty co-partner is
married and that article 27 of the Civil Code is applicable to him.
(2) No prosecution shall be installed unless by complaint of the insulted spouse, followed, if to the spouse
article 27 of the Civil Code is applicable, within the time of three months by a demand for divorce or
severance from board and bed on the ground of the same act.
(3) In respect of this complaint articles 72, 73 and 75 shall not be applicable.
(4) The complaint may be withdrawn as long as the judicial investigation has not commenced.
(5) If article 27 of the Civil Code is applicable to the spouse, the complaint shall not be complied with as long
as the marriage has not been severed by divorce or the verdict whereby severance from board and bed
has been pronounced, has not become final.

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60 / 117 Article 285
Any person who by using force or threat of force forces a woman to have sexual intercourse with him out of
marriage, shall, being guilty of rape, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 286
Any person who out of marriage has carnal knowledge of a woman of whom he knows that she is unconcious or
helpless, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 287
(1) Any person who out of marriage has carnal knowledge of a woman whom he knows or reasonably should
presume that she has not yet reached the age of fifteen years or, if it is not obvious from her age, that she
is not yet marriageable, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.
(2) A prosecution shall be instituted only by complaint, unless the woman has not yet reached the age of
twelve years or one of the cases of articles 291 and 294 is present.

Article 288
(1) Any person who in marriage has carnal knowledge of a woman of whom he knows or reasonable should
presume that she is not yet marriageable, shall, if the act results in bodily harm, be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) If the act results in serious physical injury a maximum imprisonment of eight years shall be imposed.
(3) If the act results in death, a maximum imprisonment of twelve years shall be imposed.

Article 289
Any person who by using force or threat of force forces someone to commit or tolerate obscene acts, shall, being
guilty of factual assault of the chastity, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 290
By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished:
1st, any person who commits obscene acts with someone who he knows that he is unconcious or
helpless;
2nd-ly, any person who commits obscene acts with someone who he knows or reasonably should presume
that he has not yet reached the age of fifteen years or, if it is not obvious from her age, not yet
marriageable;
3rd-ly, any person who seduces someone whom he knows or reasonably should presume that he has not
yet reached the age of fifteen years or, if it is not obvious from the age, is not yet marriageable, to
commit or tolerate obscene acts or to have carnal knowledge, out of marriage, of a third party.

Article 291

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61 / 117 (1) If one of the crimes described in articles 286, 287, 289 and 290 results in a serious physical injury, a
maximum imprisonment of twelve years shall be imposed.
(2) If one of the crimes described in articles 285, 286, 287, 289 and 290 results in death, a maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years shall be imposed.

Article 292
Any adult who commits any obscene act with a minor of the same sex whose minority he knows or reasonably
should presume, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

Article 293
(1) Any person who by gifts or promises of money or goods, abuse of dominance resulting from factual
relationship or deceit, intentionally moves a minor of irreproachable conduct, whose minority he knows or
reasonably should presume, to commit any obscene act with him or to tolerate such act, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of five years.
(2) A prosecution shall be instituted only upon complaint of the person against whom the crime has been
committed.
(3) The term referred to in article 74 shall for this complaint respectively amount to nine and twelve years.

Article 294
(1) Any person who commits any obscene act with his under age child, step-child or foster-child, his pupil, a
minor entrusted to his care, education or vigilance or his under age servant or subordinate, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished:
1st, the official who commits any obscene act with a person who is officially subordinate to him or
has been entrusted or recommended to his vigilance;
2nd-ly, the executive, physician, teacher, official, overseer or attendant at a prison, labour institution of
the country, educational institution, orphanage, hospital, lunatic asylum or charity institution,
who commits any obscene act with a person admitted thereto.

Article 295
(1) Any person shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if he with deliberate intent causes or facilitates the
commission of any obscene act by his under age child, step-child or foster-child, his pupil, a
minor entrusted to his care, education or vigilance or his under age servant or subordinate, with
a third party;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of four years, if he except the cases enumerated under 1st, with
deliberate intent causes or facilitates the commission of any obscene act by a minor, whose
minority he knows or must reasonably suspect, with a third party.
(2) If the offender makes an occupation or a habit of the commission of the crime, the punishments may be
enhanced with one third.

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Article 296
Any person who makes an occupation or a habit of intentionally causing or facilitating any obscene act by others
with third parties, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum
fine of one thousand rupiahs.

Article 297
Trade in women and minors of the male sex shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.

Article 298
(1) By conviction by reason of one of the crimes described in articles 281, 284 – 290 and 292- 297,
deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fifthly may be pronounced.
(2) If the offender of one of the crimes described in articles 292- 297 commits the crime in his profession, he
may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.

Article 299
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent gives treatment to a woman or causes her to undergo a treatment,
giving her to understand or raising the expectation that thereby pregnancy may be curbed, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of three thousand rupiahs.
(2) If the offender has acted in pursuit of gain, an occupation or a habit of the commission of the crime, or is a
physician, midwife or pharmacist, the punishment may be enhanced with one third.
(3) If the person found guilty commits the crime in his profession, he may be released from the exercise of
said profession.

Article 300
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who with deliberate intent sells or administers intoxicating drinks to a person who is
in an obvious state of drunkenness;
2nd-ly, any person who with deliberate intent makes drunk a child under the age of sixteen years;
3rd-ly, any person who by force or threat thereof with deliberate intent forces someone to use
intoxicating drunks.
(2) If the fact results in a grievous bodily harm, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
seven years.
(3) If the fact results in death, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.
(4) If the offender commits the crime in his profession, he may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.

Article 301
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63 / 117 another person, knowing that it will be used for begging or carrying out begging, for performing dangerous feats
or dangerous labour or labour detrimental to the health, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four
years.

Article 302
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall, being
guilty of light mal-treatment to animals, be punished:
1st, any person who without reasonable objective or by overstepping what is permissible in reaching
such objective, with deliberate intent causes pain or harm to an animal or causes injury to the
health of an animal;
2nd-ly, any person who without reasonable objective or by overstepping what is permissible in reaching
such objective, with deliberate intent withholds the necessary sustenance from an animal that
wholly or partially belongs to him and is under his supervision, or from an animal to the
sustenance of which he is obliged.
(2) If the fact results in an illness of longer than one week, mutilation, serious harm of another nature, or
death of the animal, the offender shall by reason of mal-treatment to animals be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(3) The animal may, if it belongs to the offender, be forfeited. Attempt to this crime shall not be punished.

Article 303
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of six thousand rupiahs
shall be punished any person who without being entitled thereto:
1st, performs as his trade the intentional offering or providing of opportunity for a game of chance,
or intentionally participates in an undertaking thereto;
2nd-ly, intentionally offers or gives the public an opportunity to a game of chance, or intentionally
participates in an undertaking thereto, irrespective whether or not the use of said opportunity is
made dependent on a condition or on the observance of some or other form;
3rd-ly, participates in a game of chance as his trade.
(2) )If the offender commits the crime in his profession, he may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.
(3) Game of chance includes each game whereby in general the chance of gain depends on chance, even if
that chance increase by more training or by greater dexterity of the player. It shall include all chance-
agreements on the outcome of contest or other games which are not concluded among those who take
part therein, as also all bets.

CHAPTER XV
Abandonment of destitutes

Article 304
The person who deliberately brings or leaves someone, to whose sustenance, nursing or care he is obliged by
virtue of the law applicable to him or by virtue of an agreement, in a helpless state, shall be punished by a

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64 / 117 maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 305
Any person who exposes a child under the age of seven years or, with intent to get rid of it, abandons the child,
shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months.

Article 306
(1) If one of the facts described in articles 304 and 305 results in a serious physical injury, the offender shall
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years and six months.
(2) If one of these facts results in death, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 307
If the offender of the crime described in article 305 is the father or the mother, the sentence laid down in respect
of them in articles 305 and 306 may be enhanced with one third.

Article 308
If the mother, driven by fear or discovery of the birth of her child, exposes the child soon after the birth or, with
intent to get rid of it, abandons the child, the maximum of the sentences mentioned in articles 305 and 306 shall
be mitigated with one half.

Article 309
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 304 – 308, deprivation of the rights mentioned
in article 35 fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XVI
Defamation

Article 310
(1) The person who intentionally harms someone’s honour or reputation by charging him with a certain fact,
with the obvious intent to give publicity thereof, shall, being guilty of slander, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) If this takes place by means of writings or portraits disseminated, openly demonstrated or put up, the
principal shall, being guilty of libel, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months
or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(3) Neither slander nor libel shall exist as far as the principal obviously has acted in the general interest or for
a necessary defence.

Article 311
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65 / 117 permitted, shall, if he does not produce said proof and the charge has been made against his better
judgment, being guilty of calumny, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) Deprivation of rights mentioned in article 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.

Article 312
Proof of the truth of the charged fact shall only be permissible in the following cases:
1st, If the judge deems the examination of the truth necessary to judge the allegation of the accused that
he has acted in the general interest or for his necessary defence;
2nd-ly, if an official is charged with the commission of an act in the exercise of his office.

Article 313
The proof referred to in article 312 shall not be permissible, if the charged fact cannot be prosecuted except
upon complaint and no complaint has been made.

Article 314
(1) If the defamed person has been declared guilty of the charged fact, by judicial verdict which has become
final punishment by reason of calumny shall be excluded.
(2) If the defamed person has been acquitted of the charged fact, by judicial verdict which has become final,
said verdict shall be considered as perfect proof of the untruth of the fact.
(3) If against the defamed person by reason of the fact charged to him, a criminal prosecution has been
initiated the prosecution by reason of calumny shall be suspended until the verdict on the charged fact has
become final.

Article 315
A defamation committed with deliberate intent which does not bear the character of slander or libel, against a
person either in public orally or in writing, or in his presence orally or by battery, or by a writing delivered or
handed over, shall as simple defamation, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two
weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 316
The punishments laid down in the foregoing articles of this chapter may be enchanted with one third, if the
defamation is committed against an official during or on the subject of the legal exercise of his office.

Article 317
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent submits or causes to submit a false charge or information in writing
against a certain person to the authorities, whereby the honour or reputation of said person is harmed,
shall, being guilty of calumnous charge, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.

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66 / 117 Article 318
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent by some act falsely cast suspicion upon another person of having
committed a punishable act, shall, being guilty of calumnous insinuation, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of four years.
(2) Deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to thirdly may be pronounced.

Article 319
Defamation, punishable under this chapter, shall not be prosecuted except upon complaint by the person against
whom the crime has been committed, except in the case of article 316.

Article 320
(1) Any person who in respect of a deceased person commits an act that, if the person were still alive, would
have been characterized as libel or slander, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four
months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) This crime shall not be prosecuted than upon complaint by either one of the blood relatives or persons
allied by marriage to the deceased in the straight line or side-line to the second degree, or by the spouse.
(3) If by virtue of matriachal institutions the paternal authority is exercised by another than the father, the
crime may also be prosecuted upon complaint by this person.

Article 321
(1) Any person who disseminates, demonstrates openly of puts up a writing or portrait of defamatory or for a
deceased slanderous contents with intent to give publicity to the defamatory or slanderous contents or to
enhance the publicity thereof, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one month and two
weeks or a maximum fine or three hundred rupiahs.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession and during the commission of the crime two years have
not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of the person by reason of a similar crime has become final, he
may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.
(3) This crime shall not be prosecuted except upon complaint by the persons indicated in article 319 and the
second and third paragraph of article 320.

CHAPTER XVII
Revelation of secrets

Article 322
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent reveals a secret which he by reason of either his present or earlier
office or profession is obliged to keep secret, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine
months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.
(2) If the crime is committed against a certain person, it may only be prosecuted upon complaint by this
person.

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67 / 117 Article 323
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent reveals particulars concerning an enterprise of commerce, industry
or agriculture where he is or has been employed, the secrecy of which he is charged with, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.
(2) No prosecution shall be made unless upon complaint by the board of directors enterprise.

CHAPTER XVIII
Crimes against personal liberty

Article 324
Any person who for his own account or for another’s account deals in slaves or commit an act dealing in slaves,
or intentionally participates indirectly or directly in any of such acts, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 825
(1) Any person who goes into service or serves as a captain on a vessel, knowing that the vessel is destined
for dealing in slaves, or using the vessel for dealing in slaves, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of twelve years.
(2) If the transport causes the death of one or more slaves, the captain shall be punished by maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 326
Any person who goes into service as a shipmate on a vessel, knowing that the vessel is destined or used for
dealing in slaves, or if he voluntarily remains in service, after having known that the vessel is destined or used
for dealing in slaves, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 327
Any person who for his own account or for another’s account, either indirectly or directly, assists in hiring, loading
or insuring a vessel, knowing that the vessel is destined or used for dealing in slaves, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of eight years.

Article 328
Any person who carries off someone from the place of his residence or his temporary stay with intent to bring
him unlawfully under his or someone else’s power or to place him in a helpless state, shall, being guilty of kid-
napping, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 329
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully carries to another area someone who has committed
himself to a labour in a certain area, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.

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68 / 117 Article 830
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent withdraws a minor from the authority legally placed over him or from
the supervision of the person who exercise said supervision over the minor with competence, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) A maximum imprisonment of nine years shall be imposed, if tricks, force or threat of force have been used,
or if the minor is under the age of twelve years.

Article 331
Any person who with deliberate intent hides or withdraws from the investigation by the officers of the justice or
police a minor who has been withdrawn or has withdrawn himself from the authority legally placed over him or
from the supervision of the person who exercises competently said supervision over him, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of four years or, if the minor is under the age of twelve years, by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.

Article 332
(1) Being guilty of abduction shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, any person who carries off a woman under age
without the will of her parents or guardians but with her consent, with intent to ensure himself of
her possession within or outside marriage;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of nine years, any person who carries off a woman by tricks, force
of threat of force, with intent to ensure himself of her possession within or outside marriage.
(2) No prosecution shall be made unless upon complaint.
(3) The complaint shall be filed;
a. if the woman during the abduction is a minor, either by herself or by a person whose consent she
needs for the contract of a marriage;
b. if during the abduction she is an adult, either by her self or by her husband.
(4) If the abductor has entered into marriage with abducted woman and this marriage is geverned by the
provisions of the Civil Code, no sentence shall be passed unless the annulment of the marriage has been
pronounced.

Article 333
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully deprives someone or keeps someone deprived of his
liberty, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years.
(2) If the fact results in a serious physical injury, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of nine years.
(3) If the fact results in death, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.
(4) The sentences laid down in this article shall also be applicable to any person who with deliberate intent
provides a place for the unlawful deprivation of liberty.

Article 334

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69 / 117 (1) Any person by whose negligence someone is deprived or is kept deprived of his liberty, shall be punished
by a maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) If the fact results in a serious physical injury, the offender shall be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of nine months.
(3) If the fact results in death, he shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of one year.

Article 335
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who unlawfully forces another by force, by any other battery or by an offensive
treatment or by threat of force, of any other battery, or also of an offensive treatment, aimed
either against the other person or against a third party, to do, to omit or to tolerate something;
2nd-ly, any person who forces another by threat of slander or libel to do, to omit or to tolerate
something.
(2) In the case described under 2nd-ly, the crime shall not be prosecuted except upon complaint by the
person against whom it has been committed.

Article 336
(1) Threat with open violence with united forces against persons or property, with a crime whereby the
general security of persons or property is endangered, with rape, with actual assault of the chasity, with a
crime against life, with grievous ill-treatment or with arson, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of two years.
(2) If the threat is executed in writing and under a certain condition, it shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of five years.

Article 337
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 324 – 333 and in the second paragraph of
article 336, deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XIX
Crimes against life

Article 338
The person who with deliberate intent takes the life of another person, shall, being guilty of manslaughter, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 339
Manslaughter followed, accompanied or preceded by a punishable fact and committed with intent to prepare or
facilitate the execution of said fact, or being taken in the act, to secure oneself or other accomplices to said fact
or either impunity or the possession of the unlawfully acquired object, shall be punished by life imprisonment or a

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Article 340
The person who with deliberate intent and with premeditation takes the life of another person, shall, being guilty
of murder, be punished by capital punishment of life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 341
The mother who, driven by fear of the discovery of her confinement, with deliberate intent takes the life of her
child at or soon after its birth, shall, being guilty of infant-manslaughter, be punished by a maximum impri-
sonment of seven years.

Article 342
The mother who, for the execution of a decission driven by fear of the discovery of her forthcoming confinement,
with deliberate intent takes the life of her child at or soon after its birth, shall, being guilty of infanticide, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 343
The crimes described in articles 341 and 342 shall in respect of others who participate in the crimes be
considered as infant-manslaughter or as infanticide.

Article 344
Any person who takes the life of another person at his explicit and earnest desire, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 345
Any person who with deliberate intent instigates another to commit suicide, aids him thereby or provides him with
the means thereto, shall, if the suicide ensues, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 346
Any woman who with deliberate intent causes or lets another cause the drifting off or the death of the fruit of her
womb, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 347
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent causes the drifting off or the death of the fruit of the womb of a
woman without her consent shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.
(2) If the fact results in the death of the woman, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen
years.

Article 348

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71 / 117 (1) Any person who with deliberate intent causes the drifting off or the death of the fruit of the womb of a
woman with her consent, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months.
(2) If the fact results in the death of the woman, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven
years.

Article 349
If a physician, midwife or pharmacist is an accomplice to the crime in article 846, or is guilty of or is an
accomplice to one of the crimes described in articles 847 and 848, the sentences laid down in said articles may
be enhanced with one third, and be may be deprived of the exercise of the profession in which he commits the
crime.

Article 350
By conviction on account of manslaughter, on account of murder or on account of one of the crimes described in
articles 344, 347 and 348, deprivation of the rights is mentioned in article 35 first to fiftly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XX
Maltreatment

Article 351
(1) Maltreatment shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a
maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) If the act results in a serious physical injury, the offender shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment
of five years.
(3) If the fact results in death, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(4) With maltreatment shall be identified intentional injury to the health.
(5) Attempt to this crime shall not be punished.

Article 352
(1) Except for the articles 353 and 856 maltreatment which does not result in an illness or obstacle in the
performance of official or professional activities, shall, as light maltreatment, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs. This sentence may be
enhanced with one third in respect of the offender, who commits the crime against a person who is in
service with him or who is his subordinate.
(2) Attempt to this crime shall not be punished.

Article 353
(1) Maltreatment committed with premeditation shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment of four
years.
(2) If the fact results in a serious physical injury, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of seven years.

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72 / 117 (3) If the fact result in death, he shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years.

Article 354
(1) The person who deliberately causes to another serious physical injury, shall, being guilty of serious
maltreatment, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years.
(2) If the fact results in death, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of ten years.

Article 355
(1) Serious maltreatment committed with premeditation shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
twelve years.
(2) If the fact result in death, the offender shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 356
The punishments laid down in articles 351, 368, 354 and 355 may be enhanced with one third:
1st, in respect of the offender who commits the crime against his mother, his lawful father, his spouse or
his child;
2nd-ly, if the crime is committed against an official during or on account of the lawful exercise of his office;
3rd-ly, if the crime is committed by administering any substances injurious to life or to health.

Article 357
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 353 and 355, deprivation of the rights
mentioned in article 35 nos. first to fourthly may be pronounced.

Article 358
Any person who with deliberate intent participates in an assault or fighting in which various persons are involved,
shall, except for each individual’s responsibility for the particular facts committed by him, be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months, if the assault or fighting only results in a
serious physical injury;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of four years, if the assault or fighting results in the death of a person.

CHAPTER XXI
Causing death or bodily harm by negligence

Article 859
Any person by whose negligence the death of another person is caused, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of five years or a maximum light imprisonment of one year.

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Article 360
Any person through whose fault is caused the serious physical injury of another person, or such physical injury
that temporary illness or an obstacle arises in exercising his official or professional activities, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum light imprisonment of six months or a maximum fine
of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 361
If the crimes described in this chapter are committed in exercising an office or profession, the sentence may be
enhanced with one third, deprivation of the exercise of the profession in which the crime has been committed
may be pronounced, and the judge may order the publication of his verdict.

CHAPTER XXII
Theft

Article 362
Any person who takes property, wholly or partially belonging to another, with intent to appropriate it unlawfully,
shall, being guilty of theft, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years or a maximum fine of sixty
rupiahs.

Article 363
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished:
1st, theft of cattle;
2nd-ly, theft on the occasion of fire, explosion, flood, earth- or sea-quake, volcanic eruption,
shipwreck, stranding, railway accident, revolt, mutiny or distress caused by war;
3rd-ly, theft by night in a dwelling or at an enclosed yard where a dwelling stands, by somebody who
is found there without the knowledge or against the will of the rightful claimant;
4th-ly; theft committed by two or more united persons;
5th-ly, theft whereby the guilty person has forced an entrance into the place of the crime or has
brought under his reach the property to be taken away by way of breaking into the house,
damaging or climbing in, of false keys, of a false order or of a false costume.
(2) If the theft described under thirdly is accompanied by one of the circumstances mentioned under fourthly
and fifthly, a maximum imprisonment of nine years shall be imposed.

Article 364
The facts described in article 362 and 363 fourthly, as well as those described in article 363 fiftly, provided that
they have not been committed in a dwelling or at an enclosed yard where a dwelling is, shall, if the value of the
thing stolen does not amount to more than twenty five rupiahs, as light theft, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

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Article 365
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of nine years shall be punished theft preceded, accompanied or followed by
force or threat of force against persons, committed with intent to prepare or facilitate the theft, or when
taken in the act, either to enable for himself or for other accomplices to the crime to escape, or to ensure
possession of the thing stolen.
(2) A maximum imprisonment of twelve years shall be imposed:
1st, if the fact is committed either by night in a dwelling or at an enclosed yard where a dwelling is;
or on the public road; or in a railway carriage or tram which is in motion;
2nd-ly, if the fact is committed by two or more united persons;
3rd-ly, if the offender has forced an entrance into the place of the crime by way of breaking into the
house or climbing in, of false keys, of a false order or a false costume;
4th-ly, if the fact results in serious physical injury.
(3) A maximum imprisonment of fifteen years shall be imposed, if the fact results in death.
(4) Capital punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years shall be imposed, if
the fact results in a serious physical injury or death, committed by two or more united persons and thereby
accompanied by one of the circumstances mentioned under first and thirdly.

Article 366
By conviction on account of one of the facts described in articles 362, 363 and 365, deprivation of the rights
mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

Article 367
(1) if the principal of or accomplice to one of the crimes described in this chapter is the spouse not separated
from bed and board or from goods of the person against whom the crime has been committed, no criminal
prosecution shall be instituted against said principal or said accomplice.
(2) If he is his spouse separated from bed and board or from goods or is his blood relative or person allied by
marriage, either in the straight line or in the second degree of the side-line, the prosecution, as far as it
concerns him, shall take place only upon complaint addressed to him by the person against whom the
crime has been committed.
(3) If by virtue of matriarchal institutions the paternal authority is exercised by another than the father, the
provision of the foregoing paragraph shall also apply to him.

CHAPTER XXIII
Extortion and blackmail

Article 368
(1) Any person who, with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, by force or threat of force forces
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imprisonment of nine years.
(2) The provinsions of the second, third and fourth paragraph of article 365 shall be applicable to this crime.

Article 369
(1) Any person who, with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, by threat of slander, libel revelation of
a secret forces someone either to deliver any property which wholly or partially belongs to that person or
to a third party, or to negotiate a loan or to annul a debt, shall, being guilty of black-mail, be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) This crime shall not be prosecuted unless upon complaint of the person against whom it has been
committed.

Article 370
The provision of article 367 shall be applicable to the crime described in this chapter.

Article 371
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in this chapter, deprivation of the rights mentioned in
article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XXIV
Embezzlement

Article 372
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully appropriates property which wholly or partially belongs to
another and which he has in his possession otherwise than by a crime, shall, being guilty of embezzlement, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 373
The act described in article 372 shall, if the embezzled property does not consist in cattle and the value does not
amount to more than twenty rupiahs, as light embezzlement, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three
months or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 374
Embezzlement committed by any person who has possession of the property on account of his personal service
or of his profession or for monetary compensation, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

Article 375
Embezzlement committed by any person to whom the property has been handed in custody, compelled by
necessity, or by guardians, curators, executives, executioners of last wills and testaments, managers of

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be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.

Article 376
The provisions of article 367 shall be applicable to the crimes described in this chapter.

Article 377
(1) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 372, 374 and 375, the judge may order
the publication of his verdict and pronounce deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to
fourthly.
(2) If the offender commits the crime in his profession, he may be deprived of the exercise of said profession.

CHAPTER XXV
Fraud

Article 378
Any person who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, either by assuming a false name or a false
capacity, or by crafty artifices, or by a web of fictions, induces someone to deliver any property or to negotiate a
loan or to annul a debt, shall, being guilty of fraud, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 379
The fact described in article 378 shall, if the property surrendered does not consist in cattle, and the value of the
property, of the loan and of the debt does not amount to more than twenty five rupiahs, shall, as light fraud, be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 379 a
Any person who makes a business or a habit of the purchase of property with intent to secure himself or another
possession of said property without full payment, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 380
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of five thousand rupiahs
shall be punished:
1st, any person who falsely affixes any name or any mark to a work of literature, science, art or
industry, or falsifies the genuine name or the genuine mark, with intent to make it thereby
acceptable that said work would be made by the person whose name or mark he affixes thereto;
2nd-ly, the person who deliberately sells, offers for sale, delivers, has in store for sale or imports into
Indonesia a work of literature, science, art or industry to which falsely a name or a mark has
been affixed, or the genuine name or the genuine mark has been falsified, as if said work were
made by the person whose name or mark has been affixed falsely thereto.

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77 / 117 (2) The work may, if it belongs to the convicted person, be forfeited.

Article 381
Any person who crafty artifices causes the insurer to err in respect of circumstances relating to the insurance, so
that the insurer concludes an agreement which he would not have concluded or would not have concluded under
the same conditions, if he had known the true state of affairs, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
one year and four months.

Article 382
Any person who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another to the detriment of the insurer or of the legal
holder of a bottomry bond, sets fire to or causes an explosion in property insured against fire-risk, or causes to
sink or strand, destroys, makes useless or damages a vessel which has been insured or of which the cargo or
the freightage to be earned has been insured, or for which bottomry money has been provided, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

Article 382 bis
Any person who, in order to establish, to retain or to expand the sale of his trade or business or those of the
trade or business of another, commits a fraudulent act of misleading the public or a certain person, shall, if
therefrom some loss for his competitors or competitors of the other person may arise, being guilty of unfair
competition, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum fine of nine
hundred rupiahs.

Article 383
By a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months shall be punished the seller who deceives the buyer:
1st, by delivering with deliberate intent to the person who bought a fixed designated object, something
else instead thereof;
2nd-ly, in respect of the nature, the quality or the amount of the delivered articles, by using crafty artifices.

Article 383 bis
The holder of a bill of lading who with deliberate intent has in possession different copies thereof with onerous
title in favour of different receivers, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight
months.

Article 384
The facts described in article 383 shall, if the value of the gain enjoyed does not amount to more than twenty five
rupiahs, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 385
By a maximum imprisonment of four years shall be punished:

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78 / 117 1st, any person who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, sells, exchanges or encumbers
with mortgage an Indonesian right of use to land, or a building, work, planting or sowing on land on
which Indonesian rights of use are exercised, knowing that another has Or shares the title thereto;
2nd-ly, any person who with similar intent sells, exchanges or encumbers with mortgage an Indonesian
right of use to land or building, work planting or sowing on land, on which Indonesian rights of use
are exercised, which has already been burdened with a mortgage, without informing the counterpart
of the existence of said mortgage;
3rd-ly, any person who with similar intent encumbers an Indonesian right of use to land with a mortgage,
concealing to the counterpart that the land on which said right is exercised has been pledged;
4th-ly, any person who with similar intent pledges or leases a piece of land on which an Indonesian right of
use is exercised, knowing that another has or shares the title thereto;
5th-ly, any person who with similar intent sells or exchanges an already pledged piece of land on which an
Indonesian right of use is exercised without informing the counterpart or said pledge;
6th-ly, any person who with similar intent leases a piece of land on which an Indonesian right of use is
exercised for a period for which he knows that it has already been rented out to another.

Article 386
(1) Any person who sells, offers for sale or delivers food or beverages or medicine, knowing that they have
been falsified and concealing said falsifiaction, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four
years.
(2) Food or beverages or medicine are falsified if by mixing with strange ingredients their value or usefulness
has been decreased.

Article 387
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of seven years shall be punished any master builder or any architect of a
work or any seller of building materials who in performing the work or the delivery of the materials commits
a fraudulent act, as a result of which the security of persons or property, or the security of the state in time
of war may be endangered.
(2) With the same sentence shall be punishable any person who, charged with the supervision of the work or
of the delivery of the materials, with deliberate intent allows the fraudulent act.

Article 388
(1) Any person who in the delivery of materials for use by the navy or the army commits a fraudulent act, as a
result of which the security of the state in time of war may be endangered, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) By the same sentence shall be punished any person who, charged with the supervision of the delivery of
the goods, with deliberate intent allows the fraudulent act.

Article 389

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79 / 117 Any person who, with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, destroys, moves, removes or makes useless
what serves to mark out the bounderies of premises, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two
years and eight months.

Article 390
Any person who, with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another, causes to rise or to drop the price of
merchandise, funds or securities by disseminating false news, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
two years and eight months.

Article 391
Any person who, charging himself with the duty of or cooperates inplacing debentures of a state or part thereof,
or of a public institution, or of shares in or debentures of an association, foundation or company, tries to move
the public to apply for it or to participate in it by concealing or mutilating with deliberate intent true, or holding out
false facts or circumstances, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 392
Any merchant, any executive or any commissioner of a limited liability company, any Indonesian company on
shares or any cooperative society who with deliberate intent publishes an untrue statement of accounts or
balance-sheet, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.

Article 393
(1) Any person who imports into Indonesia without obvious intention to re-export, sells offers for sale, delivers,
distributes or has in store for sale or distribution, commodities of which he knows or reasonably should
suspect that they themselves or their packages are falsely provided with the name, the firm or the mark to
which another has a right, or with the name of a fixed place as an indication as to origin with the addition
of an invented name of firm, or that on the commodities themselves or on their package such name, firm
or mark has been imitated, even with a slight deviation, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the crime five years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of the
offender on account of a similar crime has become final, a maximum imprisonment of nine months may be
imposed.

Article 393 bis
Any person who deliberately inserts or causes to insert in a document containing a claim for a divorce or for a
separation from bed and board or a request for a bankruptcy adjudication, or also in a document related thereto,
data concerning the dwelling or place of abode of the person against whom the claim has been addressed or of
the debtor, of which he knows or reasonably should suspect that they are contrary to the truth, shall, if use is
made of the document in the lawsuit concerned, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year.

Article 394
The provision of article 367 shall be applicable to the crimes described in this chapter, except for the crime
described in article 393 bis, if it has been committed by the claiming spouse with respect to a claim for divorce or
for a separation from bed and board.

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Article 395
(1) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in this chapter, the judge may order the
publication of his verdict and the offender may be deprived of the exercise of the profession in which the
crime has been committed.
(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 78, 382, 385, 387, 388 and 393 bis,
deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XXVI
Injury to creditors or rightful claimants

Article 396
Any merchant who has been adjudge bankrupt or has been admitted to a judicial cession of estate shall, being
guilty of simple bankruptcy, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months:
1st, if his expenses have been extravagant;
2nd-ly, if he, with intent to delay his bankruptcy, knowing that it could thereby not be avoided, has been
borrowing under onerous conditions;
3rd-ly, if he does not produces in an undamaged state the books and documents in which he has kept his
records pursuant to article 6 of the Code of Commerce, and the writings which he has kept pursuant
to said article.

Article 397
Any merchant who has been adjudged bankrupt or has been admitted to judicial cession of estate shall, being
guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if he, in order to
fraudulently abridge his creditors of his rights:
1st, either has invented or invents liabilities or has not accounted or does not account for assets, or has
withdrawn or withdraws any property from the estate;
2nd-ly, has alienated any property, either for nothing or obviously below the value;
3rd-ly, has favoured or favours one of his creditors in a certain manner on the occasion of his bankruptcy or
at a moment when he knew that his bankruptcy could not be avoided;
4th-ly, has not fulfilled or does not fulfil the obligations which rest on him in respect of keeping records
pursuant to article 6, first paragraph, of the Code of Commerce, and of keeping and producing
books, documents and writings referred to in the third paragraph of said article.

Article 398
Any director or any commissioner of a limited liability company, Indonesian company on shares or cooperative
society which has been adjudged bankrupt or of which the judicial settlement has been ordered, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months:

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81 / 117 1st, if he has participated in or has given his permission to acts contrary to the articles of association to
which the losses suffered by the limited liability company, the Indonesian company on shares or
cooperative society are wholly or for a major part ascribable;
2nd-ly, if he with intent to delay the bankruptcy or the judicial settlement of the limited liability company, the
Indonesian company on shares or the cooperative society, knowing that the bankruptcy or the judicial
settlement could not thereby be avoided, has participated or has given his permission to borrow
money under onerous conditions;
3rd-ly, if he is to blame that the obligations described in article 6, first paragraph of the Code of Commerce
or article 27, first paragraph of the ordinance on the Indonesian company on shares, have not been
fulfilled or that the books and documents in which according to said articles records have been kept,
and the writings which have been kept in compliance with the said articles, are not produced in an
undamaged state.

Article 399
Any director or commissioner of a limited liability company, Indonesian company on shares or cooperative
society which has been adjudicated bankrupt or of which the judicial settlement has been ordered, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if he, in order to fraudulently curtail the rights of the
creditors of he limited liability company, the Indonesian company on shares or the cooperative society;
1st, either has invented or invents liabilities, or has not accounted or does not account for the assets, or
has withdrawn or withdraw any property from the estate;
2nd-ly, has alienated any property either for nothing or obviously below the value;
3rd-ly, on the occasion of the bankruptcy or the judicial settlement or at a moment when he knew that the
bankruptcy or the judicial settlement could not be avoided, has benefitted or benefits somehow one
of the creditors;
4th-ly, has not fulfilled or does not fulfil the obligations which rest on him in respect of keeping the records in
complirance with article 6, first paragraph of the Code of Commerce or in compliance with article 27,
first paragraph of the ordinance on the Indonesian company on shares, and the keeping and
producing of books, documents and writings referred to in said articles.

Article 400
By a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months shall be punished any person who, in order to
fraudulently abridge the creditors of their rights:
1st, in case of judicial cession of estate, bankruptcy or judicial settlement, or prospect of something or
other, if the judicial cession of estate, the bankruptcy or the judicial settlement follows, withdraws any
property from the estate, or accepts payment either of an unclaimable debt or of a claimable debt, hi
the latter case knowing that the bankruptcy or the judicial settlement of the debtors has already been
applied for or as a result of consultations with the debtor;
2nd-ly, by verification of the claims in case of judicial cession of estate, bankruptcy or judicial settlement,
lays claim to a non-existing claim or causes an existing claim to be worth a higher value.

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82 / 117 Article 401
(1) Any creditor who joins an offer of a judicial accord as a result of an agreement either with the debtor or
with a third party, whereby he has stipulated special benefits, shall, in case of acceptance of the accord,
be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months.
(2) The same sentence shall in the case be applicable to the debtor or, if the debtor is a limited liability
company, an Indonesian company on shares, a cooperative society or a foundation, to the director or
commissioner who concludes such an agreement.

Article 402
Any person who has been adjudged obviously insolvent or, without being a merchant, has been adjudged
bankrupt, or has been admitted to judicial cession of estate, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
five years and six months, if he, in order to fraudulently curtail his creditors of their rights, either has invented or
invents liabilities, or has not accounted or does not account for assects, or has withdrawn or withdraws any
property from the estate, or has alienated any property for nothing or obviously below the value, or on the
occasion of his obvious insolvency, cession of estate or bankruptcy, or at a moment when he knew that
something or other could not be avoided, has benefitted or benefits somehow one of his creditors.

Article 403
Any director or any commisioner of a limited liability company, any Indonesian company on shares or any
cooperative society who, except for the case in article 398, has aided in or has given his consent to acts contrary
to the articles of incorporation, as a •result of which the company or society becomes incapable of fulfilling its
liabilities or has to be dissolved, shall be punished by a maximum fine of ten thousand rupiahs.

Article 404
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of two years shall be punished:
1st, any person who with deliberate intent withdraws his own property or, on behalf of the owner,
property not belonging to him from any other person who has thereto a title of pledge, retention,
usufruct or use;
2nd-ly, any person who deliberately withdraws his own property or, on behalf of the owner, property not
belonging to him wholly or partially from a mortgage established on it to the prejudice of the
mortgage creditor;
3rd-ly, any person who with deliberate intent withdraws property on which he has established a crop
lien, property on which a crop lien has been established by any other person, wholly or partially
from said lien, to the prejudice of the lien-holder;
4th-ly, any person who with deliberate intent withdraws his own property or, on behalf of the owner,
property not belonging to him wholly or partially from the credit lien established on it, to the
prejudice of the lien-holder.
(2) The provision of article 367 shall be applicable to these crimes.

Article 405
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(2) By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 396-402, publication of the judicial
verdict may be ordered.

CHAPTER XXVII
Destruction or damage to property

Article 406
(1) The person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys, damages, renders useless or mislays
property which wholly or partially belongs to another, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
two years and eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) The same punishment shall be imposed upon the person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully kills,
damages, renders useless of gets rid of an animal which wholly or partially belongs to another.

Article 407
(1) The facts described in article 406 shall, if the value of the incurred loss does not amount to more than
twenty five rupiahs, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of sixty
rupiahs.
(2) If the facts described in article 406, second paragraph, have been committed by applying substances
harmful to life or to health, or it the animal belongs to those mentioned in article 101, the provision of the
foregoing paragraph shall not be applicable.

Article 408
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys, damages or makes useless railway, tramway,
telegraph, telephone, electricity-work, works serving as a dam, water distribution or drainage, gas- or water
supply or sewerage, as far as these works, pipes or sewers are used for the general good, shall be punished by
a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 409
Any person by whose fault any work referred to in the foregoing article is destroyed, damaged or rendered
useless, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of hundred
rupiahs.

Article 410
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys or renders unseless a building or vessel that
wholly or partially belongs to another, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

Article 411
The provision of article 367 shall be applicable to the crimes described in this chapter.

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84 / 117 Article 412
If, except for the case of article 407, first paragraph, one of the crimes described in this chapter is committed by
two or more persons jointly, the sentence may be enhanced with one third.

CHAPTER XXVIII
Crimes committed by officials

Article 413
Any commander of the armed forces who refuses or with deliberate intent neglects, at the lawful demand of the
competent civil authority, to employ the force under his command, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of four years.

Article 414
(1) Any official who with deliberate intent calls for the aid of the armed forces against the execution of
statutory provisions, of lawful orders of the public authority or of judicial verdicts or warrants, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) If the execution is thereby prevented, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine
years.

Article 415
Any official or any other person continuously or temporarily in charge of a public service who deliberately
embezzles money or securities which he in service has under his custody, or allows them to be taken away or
embezzled by another, or thereby aids the other person as an accomplice, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.

Article 416
Any official or any other person continuously or temporarily in charge of a public who with deliberate intent
falsely draws up or falsifies books or registers, exclusively designed for the control of the administration, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 417
Any official or any other person continuously or temporarily in charge of a public service who with deliberate
intent embezzles, destroys, damages or renders useless property intended to serve’ as a conviction or as a
proof before the competent authority, deeds, documents or registers which he in service has under his custody,
or allows them to be mislaid, destroyed, damaged or rendered useless by another, or thereby aids the other
person as an accomplice, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years and six months.

Article 418
Any official who accepts a gift or promise, knowing or having reason to believe that it is given to him with a view
to a power or competence which is related to his office, or which is related to it in the opinion of the person who
makes the gift or promise, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of three years or a maximum fine of

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Article 419
By a maximum imprisonment of five years shall be punished any public officer:
1st, who accepts a gift or promise, knowing that it is given to him in order to move him, contrary to his
duty, to do or to admit something in his service;
2nd-ly, who accepts a gift, knowing that it is given to him as a result or on .account of what has been done or
omitted by him in his service contrary to his duty.

Article 420
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of nine years shall be punished:
1st, any judge who accepts a gift or promise, knowing that it is given to him in order to exercise
influence on the decision of a case which has been submitted to his judgment;
2nd-ly, any person who, in compliance with statutory provisions designated as counsellor or as
adviser to attend the session of a court of justice, accepts a gift or promise, knowing that it is
given or made to him in order to exercise influence on the advice or opinion given by him
concerning a case that has been submitted to the judgment of the court.
(2) If said gift or promise is accepted in the consciousness that it is made to obtain a conviction in a criminal
case, the offender shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 421
Any official who by misuse of power forces someone to do, not to do or to tolerate something, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.

Article 422
Any official who in a criminal case makes use of means of coercion either to wrench off a confession or to
provoke a statement, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 423
Any official who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another by misuse of power, forces someone to give
off something, to make a payment, to accept a withholding of payment, or to perform a personal service, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.

Article 424
Any official who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another by misuse of power, disposes of lands
belonging to the state on which Indonesian rights of use are exercised, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of six years.

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86 / 117 Article 425
Being guilty of extortion shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years:
1st, any official who in the exercise of his service demands or accepts or withholds payment, as being
due to him, to another official or to a public fund, which he knows is not due;
2nd-ly, any official who in the exercise of his service demands or accepts personal services or deliveries as
being due, knowing that they are not due;
3rd-ly, the official who in the performance of his service, as being due in compliance with the relative
provisions, disposes of lands belonging to the state on which Indonesian rights of use are exercised
to the prejudice of the rightful claimant, knowing that he thereby acts contrary to said provisions.

Article 426
(1) Any official who, being in charge of the custody of someone who by public authority or by virtue of a
judicial verdict or decree has been deprived of the liberty, with deliberate intent allows him to escape or
releases him or aids him in his release or self-release, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
four years.
(2) If the escape, release or self-release is due to his fault, he shall be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 427
(1) By a maximum imprisonment of four years shall be punished:
1st, any official charged with the tracing of punishable offences, who with deliberate intent does not
fulfil the requirement to give proof of an unlawful deprivation of liberty or with deliberate intent
does not immediately give notice thereof to the higher authority;
2nd-ly, any official who, in the exercise of his service after having had cognizance that someone has
been unlawfully deprived of his liberty, with deliberate intent omits to give instant notice thereof
to an official charged with the tracing of punishable offences.
(2) Any official through whose fault is caused the omission described in this article, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 428
By a maximum imprisonment of one year four months shall be punished any head of an institution’ destined for
the donfinement of convicted persons, persons taken into custody or persons being imprisoned for debt, or *of a
public school, or lunatic asylum, who refuses to fulfil a lawful demand to show anyone who has been admitted to
the institution, or to show for inspection the register of enrolment or the deed of which a general regulation
demands its registration.

Article 429
(1) Any official who, overstepping his competence or without observance of the formalities determined by
general regulation, enters the house or the enclosed room or grounds in use by another and against his
will or, staying unlawfully at said place, does not immediately moves away at the demand of or on behalf

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maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) By the same punishment shall be punished any official who, on the occasion of a search in a house,
exceeding his powers or without observance of the formalities determined by general regulation,
investigates or seized writings, books or other papers.

Article 430
(1) Any official who, overstepping his competence, causes to be produced to himself or seizes a letter,
postcard, document or parcel or telegraphic news entrusted to any public institution of transport, which is
in the hands of an official of the telegraphic services or of other persons charged with the services of a
telegraphic institution used for the general good, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two
years and eight months.
(2) The same punishment shall be imposed upon any official who exercising his powers causes himself to be
informed by an official of the telephonic services or by other persons charged with the services of a
telephonic institution used for the general good, on the subject of a conversation which has taken place
through said institution.

Article 431
Any official of a public institution of transport who with deliberate intent and unlawfully opens a letter, sealed
document or parcel entrusted to such institution, examines it or reveals the contents to another, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years.

Article 432
(1) Any official of a public institution of transport who with deliberate intent delivers a letter, postcard,
document or parcel entrusted to such Institution to another than the righful claimant, destroys, mislays,
appropriates said letter, postcard, document or parcel, or changes the contents or appropriates any article
enclosed therein, shall be punished with a maximum imprisonment of five years.
(2) If such document or article possesses money value, the appropriation shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.

Article 433
Any official of the telegraphic or telephonic services or any other person charged with the supervision of or with
the services of a telegraphic or telephonic institution used for the general good, shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of two years, if he with deliberate intent and unlawfully reveals to
another the contents of any news entrusted to the telegraphic or telephonic services or to such
institution or with deliberate intent and unlawfully opens a telegraphic or telephonic news, examines it
or reveals the contents to another;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if he with deliberate intent delivers any news entrusted to
the telegraphic or telephonic services or to such institution or a telegram or telephonic news to
another than the rightful claimant, destroys, mislays or appropriates said news or amends the
contents.

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Any official of a public institution of transport, of the telegraphic or the telephonic services or any other person
referred to in article 433, who with deliberate intent allows another to commit one of the offences mentioned in
articles 431 – 433, or aids the other thereby as an accomplice, shall be punished by the imprisonments and
according to the distinctions laid down in said provisions.

Article 435
Any official who with deliberate intent takes part, directly or indirectly, in tenders, deliveries or leases, over which
at the moment of the act he has been wholly or partially charged with the management or supervision, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of twelve hundred rupiahs.

Article 436
(1) Any person who, by virtue of the law applicable to parties, empowered to solemnize marriages,
solemnizes anyone’s marriage, knowing that the existing marriage or marriages of said person from a
legal obstacle against it, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) Any person who, by virtue of the law applicable to parties, empowered to solemnize marriages,
solemnizes anyone’s marriage, knowing that any other legal obstacle exists against it, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 437
By conviction on account of one of the crimes described in articles 415, 419, 420, 423, 424, 425, 432, last
paragraph, and 436, first paragraph, deprivation of the rights mentioned in article 35 thirdly and fourthly may he
pronounced.

CHAPTER XXIX
Crimes relating to navigation

Article 438
(1) Being guilty of piracy shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, the person who enters into service or serves as a
shipper on a vessel, knowing that it is destined to be used or is used to commit acts of violence
in the open sea against other vessels or against persons or property on board said vessels,
without thereto being authorized by a belligerent state or being part of the navy of a recognized
state;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, any person who, knowing of this destination or
this use, enters into service as a member of the crew on board such vessel or voluntarily
remains in service after having been acquainted therewith, or who belongs to the crew of such
vessel.
(2) With absence of authorization shall be identified the transgression of authority as well as being provided
with authorities emanating from states waging war against each other.
(3) Article 89 shall not be applicable.

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Article 439
(1) Being guilty of coast-piracy shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, any person
who with the aid of a vessel within the Indonesian sea-territory commits acts of violence against another
vessel or against persons or property on board said vessel.
(2) By “Indonesian sea-territory” shall be understood the sea-territory as is described in article 1 of the
“Territorial Sea and Maritime Circles Ordinance 1939”.

Article 440
Being guilty of beach-piracy shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, any person who
ashore, on or near the beach or the mouth of rivers, after having gone thereto wholly or partially by sea for that
purpose, commits acts of violence against persons or property found at that place.

Article 441
Being guilty of river-piracy shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, any person who on a
river with the aid of a vessel, after having arrived from somewhere on board a vessel for that purpose, commits
acts of violence against another vessel or against persons or property on board said vessel.

Article 442
By a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years shall be punished any person who enters into service or serves as
commander or captain on board a vessel, knowing that it is destined to be used or that it is used for the
commission of one of the offences mentioned in articles 439 – 441.

Article 443
By a maximum imprisonment of ten years shall be punished any person who enters into service or serves as a
member of the crew on board a vessel, knowing that it is destined to be used or that it is used for the
commission of one of the offences mentioned in articles 439 – 441, or who remains voluntarily in service on
board such vessel after having been acquainted with the destination of the vessel referred to above.

Article 444
If the acts of violence described in articles 438 – 441 result in the death of one of the persons on board the
attacked vessel or of one of the assaulted persons, the skipper, commander or captain and those who have
participated in the acts of violence shall be punished by capital punishment, life imprisonment or a maximum
temporary imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 445
Any person who on his own or any other’s account equips a vessel with the destination described in article 438
or with intent to commit one of the offences described in articles 439 – 441, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 446

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90 / 117 Any person who on his own or on any other’s account directly or indirectly participates in the hiring out, freighting
or insuring of vessel, knowing that it has the destination described in article 438 or is destined to be used for the
commission of one of the offences described in articles 439 – 441, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 447
Any person who deliberately surrenders an Indonesian vessel to sea-pirates, coast-pirates, beach-pirates or
river-pirates, shall be punished:
1st, if he is the skipper, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years;
2nd-ly, in all other cases, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 448
Any person on board an Indonesian ship who unlawfully seizes the ship, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.

Article 449
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who withdraws the ship from the owner or the shipping company and uses it
for his own benefit, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years.

Article 450
By a maximum imprisonment of five years shall be punished any Indonesia subject who without permission of
the Indonesian Government accepts a letter of marque and reprisal, or enters into service or serves as skipper
on board a vessel, knowing that it is destined for privateering without permission of the Indonesian Government.

Article 451
Any Indonesian subject who enters into service as a member of the crew on board a vessel, knowing that it is
destined or is used for privateering without the permission of the Indonesian Government, or remains voluntarily
in service after having known of said destination or said use, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of
four years.

Article 451 bis
Any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who causes to draw up a ship’s certificate of which he knows that the
contents are contrary to the truth, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.
The members of the crew who participate in the drawing up of a ship’s certificate of which they know that the
contents are contrary to the truth, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.

Article 451 ter
Any person who in order to fulfil the provision of the third paragraph of article 12 of the regulation on the
registration of ships, produces a certificate of which he knows that the contents are contrary to the truth, shall be

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Article 452
(1) Any person who, in the record of evidence of a ship’s certificate causes to insert a false statement
concerning a fact the truth of which must be given proof by the deed, with intent to use said deed or to
cause it to be used by others, as if his statement were in accordance with the truth, shall, if from said use
an injury may arise, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of eight years.
(2) With the same punishment shall be punished any person who with deliberate intent makes use of the
deed as if the contents were in accordance with the truth, if from said use an injury may arise.

Article 453
The skipper of an Indonesia ship who, after. commencement of the recruitment or of the engagement of the
members of the crew and before termination of his contract deliberately and unlawfully withdraws himself from
the leadership of the ship shall he punished by -a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.

Article 454
Being guilty of desertion, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four months, any crew
member of a ship who contrary to his duty arising from the work agreement, withdraws from service on board an
Indonesian ship, if because of the circumstances in which he acted, danger for the ship, those on board the ship,
or the cargo is feared.

Article 455
Being guilty of a simple desertion, shall he punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two
weeks, any shipmate who with deliberate intent and unlawfully does not make or does not continue a voyage to
which he has been engaged on an Indonesian ship.

Article 456
Repealed.

Article 457
The punishments laid down in articles 454 and 455 may be doubled, if two or more persons jointly or as a result
of a conspiracy commit the crime.

Article 458
(1) Any ship-owner, book-keeper or skipper of an Indonesian ship who takes a crew member into his employ,
knowing that one month has not yet elapsed since this person has withdrawn himself from his
engagement with an Indonesian ship in the manner described in one of the articles 454 or 455, shall be
punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred
rupiahs.
(2) Not punishable shall be the fact, if the taking into employ takes place outside Indonesia with the
permission of the Indonesian Consul, or, if he is absent, at the request of the local authority.

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Article 459
(1) Any person on board an Indonesian ship who on board the ship factually assaults, by violence or threat of
violence resists against the skipper or with deliberate intent deprives him from his liberty to act, or the
crew member who on board the ship or in service commits similar offences against a superior in rank,
shall, being guilty or insubordination, be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight
months.
(2) The offender shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of four years, if the crime or the accompanying assault and
battery result in a physical injury;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of eight years and six months, if said acts result in a serious
physical injury;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if said acts result in death.

Article 460
(1) Insubordination committed by two or more united persons shall, as mutiny, be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of seven years.
(2) The offender shall be punished:
1st, by a maximum imprisonment of eight years and six months, if the crime committed by him or
the assault and battery thereby committed by him, result in a physical injury;
2nd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if said acts result in a serious physical injury;
3rd-ly, by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, it said acts result in death.

Article 461
Any person who on board an Indonesian ship instigates to mutiny on board said ship, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of six years.

Article 462
Refusal to obey orders committed by two or more crew members of an Indonesian ship jointly or as a result of a
conspiracy, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight months.

Article 463
Any crew member of an Indonesian ship who, after having been disciplinarily punished on account of refusal to
obey orders, persists in his refusal shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months.

Article 464
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1st, who with deliberate intent does not obey an order of the skipper given to the interest of security
or for maintaning order and discipline on board;
2nd-ly, who, knowing that the skipper has been deprived of his liberty to act, does not come to the
rescue to his ability;
3rd-ly, who having knowledge of an intention to commit insubordination, with deliberate intent refrains
from timely notifying the skipper thereof.
(2) The provision mentioned under no. 3 shall not be applicable, if the insubordination does not follow.

Article 465
The punishments laid down in articles 448, 451, 454 and 455 and 459 – 464 may be enhanced by one third, if the
offender of one of the crimes described in said articles is an officer of the ship.

Article 466
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who, with intent to benefit himself or another or to conceal such benefit, either
sells the ship, or borrows money on the ship, the ship’s accessories or the ship’s provisions, or sells or pledges
goods of the cargo or of the ship’s provisions, or enters invented losses or expenditures into account, or does
not see to it that on board the required journals are kept according to the statutory provisions, or does not care
for the preservation of the ship’s papers when leaving the ship, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of seven years.

Article 467
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship, who with intent to unlawfully benefit himself or another or to conceal such
benefit, changes his course, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 468
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who unnecessary or in violation of the law applicable to him, leaves the ship
during the voyage and also orders or allows his ship’s crew thereto, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of five years and six months.

Article 469
(1) Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who unnecessary and without prior knowledge of the owner or of the
shipping company, commits or permits acts, knowing that said acts may subject the vessel or the cargo to
seizure, detention or stoppage, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year and four
months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.
(2) Any person on board a ship who unnecessary and without prior knowledge of the skipper with said
knowledge, commits said acts, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year or a maximum
fine of six hundred rupiahs.

Article 470

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board the ship that which is due to procure for him, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years
and eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 471
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who with deliberate intent and unnecessary or in violation of the law
applicable to him throws away goods, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and eight
months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 472
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys, damages or renders useless cargo, ship-supply
or ship’s provisions present on board a vessel, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of two years and
eight months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 472 bis
Any person who travels along as a stowaway on board a vessel, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment
of three months.

Article 473
Any skipper who flies the Indonesian flag knowing that he is not thereto authorized, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 474
Any skipper who by carrying a distinguishing mark with deliberate intent gives his vessel the appearance if it
were an Indonesian warship, a vessel of the navy, or a pilot-vessel in service in Indonesian waters or river
mouths, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of
three hundred rupiahs.

Article 475
Any person who unnecessary acts as a skipper, steersman or engineer on board an Indonesian ship, knowing
that he has been released by the competent authority from his power to sail as such on board an Indonesian
ship, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine months or a maximum fine of six hundred rupiahs.

Article 476
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who without valid reasons refuses to meet a statutory demand to •take aboard
an accused or convict along with the documents relating to his case, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of four months and two weeks or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 477
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be . punished, with a maximum imprisonment of four years.
(2) If the escape, release or self-release is due to his fault, he shall be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 478
Any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who with deliberate intent does not meet his obligation, which under the first
paragraph or article 358a of the Commercial Code rests on him, to extend aid if his vessel has been involved in
a collision, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of four years.

Article 479
In sentencing on account of one of the crimes described in articles 438 -449, 466 and 467, deprivation of the
rights mentioned in article 35 nos. first to fourthly may be pronounced.

CHAPTER XXIX A
Crimes relating to aviation and aviation facilities

Article 479 a
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully renders useless .or damages & building used for
safeguarding air navigation or frustrates measures for safeguarding said building, shall be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of six years.
(2) By a maximum imprisonment of nine years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the safety of air
navigation.
(3) By a maximum punishment of fifteen years, if on account of said acts death of a person is caused.

Article 479 b
(1) Any person who by negligence causes destruction, incapability of use or damage of a building used for
safeguarding air navigation, or frustration of measures for safeguarding said building, shall be punished by
a maximum imprisonment of three years.
(2) By a maximum imprisonment of five years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the safety of air
navigation.

Article 479 c
(1) Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys, damages, removes or displaces a sign or
an instrument for safeguarding air navigation, or frustrates the operation of said sign or instrument, or
places a wrong sign or instrument, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of six years.
(2) By a maximum imprisonment of nine years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the safety of air
navigation.
(3) By a maximum imprisonment of twelve years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the safety of air
navigation and disaster of the aircraft is caused.

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navigation and death of a person is caused.

Article 479 d
Any person who by negligence causes destruction, removal, displacement of a sign or an instrument for
safeguarding air navigation or causes a sign or an instrument for safeguarding air navigation not to be operated
or causes its misplacement, shall be punished:
a. by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if on account of said act unsafety of air navigation is caused;
b. by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if on account of said act disaster of the aircraft is caused;
c. by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if on account of said act death of a person is caused.

Article 479 e
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully destroys an aircraft or causes damage to an aircraft which
wholly or partially belongs to another person, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years. •

Article 479 f
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully causes disaster to an aircraft, destroys, renders an aircraft
incapable of use or damages an aircraft, shall be punished:
a. by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the life of
another person;
b. by life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, if on account of said act death of a
person is caused.

Article 479 g
Any person who by negligence causes disaster or destruction to an aircraft or causes an aircraft to be rendered
incapable of use or causes damage to an aircraft, shall be punished:
a. by a maximum imprisonment of five years, if on account of said act danger is caused to the life of another
person;
b. by a maximum imprisonment of seven years, if on account of said act death of a person is caused.

Article 479 h
(1) Any person who with intent to benefit himself or another, unlawfully, to the detriment of an insurer, causes
a fire or an explosion, disaster, destruction, damage, to an aircraft or causes an aircraft to be rendered
incapable of use, of which the aircraft itself or its cargo or the fee due for the transport of the cargo has
been insured against above mentioned accidents or of which the insurance money for the cargo has been
paid. shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of nine years;
(2) If the aircraft mentioned in paragraph (1) of this article is an aircraft in flight, the punishment shall be a
maximum imprisonment of fifteen years;
(3) Any person who with deliberate intent to benefit himself or another, unlawfully, to the detriment of an
insurer, causes disaster to a passanger of an aircraft, which has been insured against accidents, shall be

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a. by a maximum imprisonment of ten years, if on account of said act serious physical injury is caused;
b. by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years, if on account of said act, death of a person is caused.

Article 479 i
Any person who on board an aircraft, unlawfully seizes or maintains the seizure, or exercises control of that
aircraft while it is in flight, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of twelve years.

Article 479 j
Any person who on board an aircraft, by force or threat thereof, or by any other form of intimidation, seizes or
maintains the seizure, or exercises control of that aircraft while it is in flight, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 479 k
(1) Life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, shall be imposed if the act mentioned in
article 479i and article 479j:
a. is committed by two or more persons jointly;
b. is a continuation of a conspiracy;
c. is committed with premeditation;
d. causes serious physical injury to a person;
e. causes damage to said aircraft, such that its navigation may be endangered;
f. is committed with intent to deprive a person of his liberty or to maintain the deprivation of liberty of a
person.
(2) If said act causes the death of a person or the destruction of said aircraft, the punishment shall be death
punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 479 l
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully performs an act of violence against a person on board an
aircraft in flight, if that act is likely to endanger the safety of that aircraft, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 479 m
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully damages an aircraft in service or causes damage to such
an aircraft which renders it incapable of flight or which is likely to endanger its safety in flight, shall be punished
by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 479 n
Any person who with deliberate intent and unlawfully places or causes to be placed on an aircraft in service, by
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punished by a ‘maximum imprisonment of -fifteen years.

Article 479 o
(1) Life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years, shall be imposed if the act mentioned in
article 4791, article 479 m, and article 479 n:
a. is committed by two’ or more persons jointly;
b. is a continuation of a conspiracy;
c. is committed with premeditation; •
d. causes serious physical injury to a person.
(2) If said act causes the death of a person or the destruction of said aircraft, the punishment shall be death
punishment or life imprisonment or a maximum imprisonment of twenty years.

Article 479 p
Any person who communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby endangering the safety of an
aircraft in flight, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of fifteen years.

Article 479 q
Any person who on board an aircraft performs an act which may jeopardize the safety of the aircraft in flight,
shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of five years.

Article 479 r
Any person who on board an aircraft performs an act which may jeopardize good order and discipline on board
that aircraft in flight, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of one year.

CHAPTER XXX
Receiving stolen property, publishing and printing

Article 480
By a maximum imprisonment of four years or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, being guilty of receiving stolen property, any person who buys, hires, takes in exchange, takes as
security, accepts as a gift, or in pursuit of gain, sells, hires out, disposes in exchange, gives as
security, carries, keeps or hides an object of which he knows or reasonably should presume that it
has been obtained through a crime;
2nd-ly, any person who takes advantage from the yield of an object of which he knows or reasonably should
presume that it has been obtained through a crime.

Article 481

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objects obtained through a crime, shall be punished by a maximum imprisonment of seven years.
(2) The offender may be deprived of the rights mentioned in article 35 nos. first to fourthly from the
performance of the profession in which he has committed the crime.

Article 482
The offender described in article 480 shall, of the crime through which the object has been obtained is one of the
crimes described in articles 364, 373 and 379, as simple receiving of stolen property, be punished by a
maximum imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 483
Any person who publishes any writing or any portrait of a punishable character, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of
three hundred rupiahs, if:
1st, the principal is neither known, nor has been made known at the first warning after a true bill has been
found;
2nd-ly, the publisher knew or had to expect that the principal at the moment of the publication would not
domiciled outside Indonesia.

Article 484
Any person who prints a writing or a portrait of a punishable character, shall be punished by a maximum
imprisonment of one year and four months or a maximum light imprisonment of one year or a maximum fine of
there hundred rupiahs, if:
1st, the person by whose order the document has been printed is neither known, nor has been made
known at the first warning after a true bill has been found;
2nd-ly, the printer knew or had to expect that the person by whose order the document has been printed, at
the moment of the publication would not be criminally prosecutable or would be domiciled outside
Indonesia.

Article 485
If the nature of the writing or portrait produces a crime which is prosecutable only upon complaint, the publisher
or printer may in the case of both foregoing articles be prosecuted only upon complaint of the person against
whom the crime has been committed.

CHAPTER XXXI
Provisions relating to recidivism common to various Chapters

Article 486
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therein referred to the second and third paragraph of articles 365, 369, 372, 374, 375, 378, 380, 381 – 383, 385 –
388, 397, 309, 400, 402, 415, 417, 425, 432, last paragraph, 452, 466, 480 and 481, and also the imprisonment
to be imposed under articles 204, second paragraph, 366, fourth paragraph, and 368, second paragraph, as far
as it is referred to the fourth paragraph of article 365, may be enhanced with one third, if during the commission
of the crime five years have not yet elapsed since the person found guilty has wholly or partially served an impri-
sonment imposed upon him either on account of one of the crimes described in said articles, or on account or
one of the crimes referred to in one of the articles 140 -143, .145, and 149 of the Military Criminal Code, or since
said sentence has been wholly remitted to him; or if during the commission of the crime the right to execution of
said sentence has not yet expired.

Article 487
The imprisonment laid down in articles 130, first paragraph, 131 – 133, 140 first paragraph, 141, 170, 213, 214,
338, 341, 342, 344, 347, 348, 351, 353 – 355, 438 – 443, 459 and 460, and also the imprisonment to be imposed
under articles 104, 106, 130, second and third paragraph, 140, second and third paragraph, 339, 340 and 444,
may be enchanted with one third, if during the commission of the crime five years have not yet elapsed, since
the person found guilty has wholly or partially served the imprisonment imposed on him either on account of one
of the crimes described in said articles, or on account of one of the crimes referred to in one of articles 106,
second and third paragraph, 107, second and third paragraph, 108, second paragraph, 109, as far as the
committed crime or the thereby committed assault and battery result in a physical injury or death, 131, second
and third paragraph, 137 and 138 of the Military Criminal Code, or since said sentence has been wholly remitted
to him; or if during the commission of the crime the right to execution of said punishment has not yet expired.

Article 488
The punishments laid down in articles 134 – 138, 142 – 144, 297, 208, 310 – 321, 483 and 484 may be enhanced
with one third, if during the commission of the crime five years have not yet elapsed, since the person found
guilty has wholly or partially served an imprisonment pronounced against him on account of one of the crimes
described in said articles, or since said punishment has been wholly remitted to him; or if during the commission
of the crime the right to execution of said punishment has not yet expired.

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Misdemeanours

CHAPTER I
Misdemeanours concerning the general security of persons and property and the public health

Article 489
(1) Mischief committed against persons or property, whereby danger, injury or inconvenience may arrive, shall
be punished by a maximum fine of fifteen rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed, since an earlier conviction of
the person found guilty on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, instead of the fine, a
maximum light imprisonment of three days may be imposed.

Article 490
By a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who sets an animal on a man or on an animal being ridden, put before a carriage or a
transport vehicle or carrying a load;
2nd-ly, any person who does not restrain an animal under his care, when it assaults a man or an animal
being ridden, put before a carriage or a transport vehicle or carrying a load;
3rd-ly, any person who does not take adequate care of keeping harmless an dangerous animal which is
under his protection;
4th-ly, any person who keeps dangerous wild animals without notifying thereof the police or another official
designated by the police, or does not observe the rules concerning the matter given by the police or
said official.

Article 491
By a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who being charged with the surveillance of a lunatic dangerous for himself and for others,
allows said lunatic to wander unguarded;
2nd-ly, any person who being charged with the surveillance of a child, leaves it unguarded so that by so doing
the child itself or others may be endangered.

Article 492
(1) Any person who, while being in a state of drukenness, either in public obstructs the traffic or disturbs the
public order, or threatens the security of another person, or performs an act whereby, for the prevention of
danger of life or health of third parties, special caution or precaution arc required, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.

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102 / 117 (2) If during the commission on said misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed, since an earlier conviction
of the person found guilty on account of a similar misdeameanour or the misdeameanour described in
article 536 has become final, he shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of two weeks.

Article 493
Any person who unlawfully on the public road obstructs another to move at liberty or with one or more others
keeps obtruding himself upon another against his explicity declared will or keeps following him in an annoying
manner, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of three hundred
rupiahs.

Article 494
By a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who does not see to it that a digging up or an excavation made by him or by his order on
a public road or an object placed by him or by his order on the public road is properly illuminated and
provided with the usual signs;
2nd-ly, any person who during an operation on or at the side of the public road does not take the necessary
measures to warn passers-by against possible danger;
3rd-ly, any person who places something on top of or against or throws or pours out something out of a
building, in such a manner that by so doing someone who makes use of a public road may be
injured;
4th-ly, any person who on the public road leaves a riding-, draught- or packanimal, or cattle which he
transports, without having taken precautionary measures required against causing danger;
5th-ly, any person who on the public road allows cattle to walk about without having taken the precautionary
measures required against causing danger;
6th-ly, any person who without the permission of the appropriate authority blocks a public land- or water-
way or obstructs the traffic on said way, or who causes such blocking or obstruction by ineffective
use of vehicles or vessels.

Article 495
(1) Any person who without the permission of the head of the police or of the official thereto designated by the
head of the police, in an area that used to be frequented by people, places mantraps, traps, catch-nooses
or other objects serving to catch or kill wild animals, whereby danger for the public may be caused, shall
be punished by a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of said misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed, since an earlier conviction
of the person found guilty on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, instead of the fine, a
maximum light imprisonment of six days may be imposed.

Article 496
Any person who without the permission of the head of the police or the official thereto designated by the head of
the police, sets fire to his own real property, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

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Article 497
By a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who on or at the side of a public road or at a short distance from buildings or goods, so
that danger of fire may be caused, either lights a fire or unnecessarily discharges a fire-arm;
2nd-ly, any person who lets off a balloon to which burning materials have been attached.

Articles 498 and 499
Abrogated.

Article 500
Any person who without the permission of the head of the police or the official thereto designated by the head of
the police, produces gunpowder, percussion-caps or cartridges for fire-arms, shall be punished by a maximum
light imprisonment of ten days or a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

Article 501
(1) By a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who sells, offers for sale, delivers, distributes or has in stock for sale or for
distribution falsified or unsound food or beverages, or milk originating from sick animals or which
may be harmful to the health;
2nd-ly, any person who without the permission of the head of the police or of the official thereto
designated by the head of the police, sells, offers for sale, delivers, distributes or has in stock for
sale or for distribution meat of cattle that has been killed because of a disease or has died
naturally.
(2) If during the commission of said misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed, since an earlier
conviction of the person found guilty on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, the said fine
may be substituted by a maximum custody of six days.

Article 502
(1) Any person who, without the permission of the thereto appropriate authority, goes hunting or carries a
gunrifle in state’s forests where performing such an act without permission is prohibited, shall be punished
by a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of two hundred rupiahs.
(2) The game caught or shot and the tools or arms with which said misdemeanour has been committed, may
be forfeited.

CHAPTER II
Misdemeanours relating to public order

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104 / 117 Article 503
By a maximum light imprisonment of three days or a maximum fine of fifteen rupiahs -shall be punished:
1st, any person who causes tumult or disturbance whereby the nocturnal tranguility may be disturbed;
2nd-ly, any person who causes tumult near buildings destined for a lawful divine service or for the
administration of justice during a service or a session.

Article 504
(1) Any person who begs alms in public, shall, being guilty of begging, be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of six weeks.
(2) Begging committed by three or more persons above the age of sixteen years, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of three months.

Article 505
(1) Any person who roams about without means of subsistence shall, being guilty of vagrancy, be punished
by a maximum light imprisonment of three months.
(2) Vagrancy committed by three or more persons above the age of sixteen years shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of six months.

Article 506
Any person who as souteneur takes advantage of the prostitution of a woman, shall be punished by a maximum
light imprisonment of one year.

Article 507
By a maximum fine of hundred and fifty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who without being thereto entitled, carries an Indonesian title of nobility or a mark honour;
2nd-ly, any person who without the permission of the President, where this is required, accepts a foreign
insignia, title, rank or dignity;
3rd-ly, any person who, asked by the competent authority for his name, states a false name.

Article 508
Any person who without being thereto entitled, makes use, even if with a slight deviation, of a name or of a
distinguishing token, of which the use by virtue of a statutory provision is explicitly awarded to an association or
to the personnel of an association or to the personnel of the medical ‘service of the army, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 508 bis
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that he may reasonably be taken for such official or functionary, shall be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 509
Any person who, without being thereto entitled, lends out money or property of which the amount or value does
not exceed one hundred rupiahs on security, or in the form of sale with the right of re-purchase or in the form of a
commission agreement, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine
of one thousand rupiahs.

Article 510
(1) By a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs shall be punished any person who, without the permission of the
head of the police or of the official designated by the head of the police:
1st, stages of public festivity or an amusement;
2nd-ly, stages a procession on the public road.
(2) If said procession is staged in order to make desired known in an awe-inspiring manner, the guilty person
shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of two weeks or a maximum fine of one hundred and
fifty rupiahs.

Article 511
Any person who on the occasion of festivities, processions and the like does not observe the orders and
directives issued by the police for the prevention of accidents and for the avoidance of traffic jams along the
public road, shall be punished by a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.

Article 512
(1) Any person who, not being permitted to perform a profession for which by, general regulation a permission
is required, unnecessarily performs said profession, shall be punished by a maximum fine of three
hundred rupiahs.
(2) Any person who being permitted to perform a profession for which by general regulation a permission is
required, in performing said profession unnecessarily exceeds the limits of his competence, shall be
punished by a maximum fine of hundred and fifty rupiahs.
(3) If during the commission of said misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the person found guilty on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, instead of the fine may
be imposed in the case of the first paragraph a maximum light imprisonment of two months, in the case of
the second paragraph a maximum light imprisonment of one month.

Article 512 a
Any person who, as a means of subsistence, either specially or a occasionally, without being in the possession
of a certificate of admission and unnecessarily performs the profession of a physician or dentist, shall be
punished by a maximum light imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine of ten thousand rupiahs.

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106 / 117 Article 518
Any person who makes use or allows the use of someone else’s property which he has in possession on
account of his personal service or of his profession, of which any use is not approved upon by the rightful
claimant, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five
rupiahs.

Article 514
The day-labourer, package carrier, messenger-boy, porter or coolie who in the performance of his job renders
himself guilty of carelessness or default in returning tools received for use or in delivering goods received for
conveyance, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five
rupiahs.

Article 515
(1) By a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who fails to give prior notice of his move to the competent authority when leaving his
abode from a district, village or campong where he has lived, with mentioning the place where
he will take up his residence;
2nd-ly, any person who after having settled in a district, village or campong, fails to give notice thereof
to the competent authority within fourteen days by mentioning his name, first name and
profession, as well as the place of origin.
(2) The provision in the first paragraph shall not apply to moves and subsequent settlements within the same
place or municipality.

Article 516
(1) Any person who makes a business of providing overnight stay to persons and do not keep a continuous
register, or fails to note or to cause to note in said register the names, business or occupation, residence,
day of arrival and of departure of the persons who have stayed overnight at his house, or who fails to
produce said register on demand to the head of the police or to the official thereto designated by the head
of the police, shall be punished by a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, instead of the fine, may be
imposed a maximum light imprisonment of six days.

Article 517
(1) By a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of one hundred and fifty rupiahs shall
be punished:
1st, any person who buys, accepts in exchange, accepts as a gift, as a security, for use or in
custody, property belonging to the costume, equipment or armament from a soldier below the
rank of officer, or sells, exchanges, disposes of as a gift, gives as a security, for use or in
custody, such property for a soldier below the rank of officer, without the permission issued by or

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2nd-ly, any person who, while making a habit of purchasing such goods, does not observe the
provisions given by general regulation concerning the register to be kept thereof.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the offender on account of one of these misdemeanours has become final, the punishments may be
doubled.

Article 518
Any person who without being thereto entitled supplies any property to a convicted person who is serving a
sentence or accepts it from said person, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a
maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.

Article 519
(1) Any person who produces, sells or has in stock for sale or for distribution or imports into Indonesia printed
matter, pieces of metal or other objects in a form which makes them resemble with government stamps or
post-stamps, shall be punished by a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) The objects with which the misdemeanour is committed may be forfeited.

Article 519 bis
By a maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of thousand rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who either openly makes known, or informs to another the contents of what has been
received by means of an instrument for radio reception being under his management or being used by
him, and which reasonably should presume that they are not meant for him or for the public, if he
reasonably should presume that open announcement of the contents will follow and such
announcement does follow;
2nd-ly, any person who openly announces news received by means of an instrument for radio reception, if he
is not entitled thereto, and the person from whom he has received the news is not authorized to issue
the news.

Article 520
By a maximum light imprisonment of three months shall be punished:
1st, any person who, having obtained a delay of payment, arbitrarily performs acts for which by a general
regulation is required the cooperation of the directors;
2nd-ly, the directors or commissioner of a partnership, company, association or foundation which has
obtained a delay in payment, who arbitrarily performs acts, for which by a general regulation is
required the cooperation of the directors.

CHAPTER III

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Article 521
Any person who breaks a provision of a published regulation laid down by the competent authority on the use
and distribution of water from water-or irrigation works for public use, shall be punished by a maximum light
imprisonment of twelve days or a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 522
Any person who, legally summoned as a witness, as an expert or an interpreter, unlawfully stays away, shall be
punished by a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs.

Article 523
(1) Any person who without valid reasons fails to perform legally required forced labour village-labour or
labour in state-owned plantations shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of three days or a
maximum fine of ten rupiahs.
(2) If during the commitment of the misdemeanour six months have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the guilty person on account of the same misdemeanour has become irrevocable, a maximum light
imprisonment of three months may be imposed.

Article 524
By a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who, without valid reasons for excuse, neither appears in person nor, where this is
permitted, appears through a proxy, when summoned before the judge or by his order before the head
of the police, in cases concerning minors or persons to be placed or placed under guardianship, or
persons to be admitted to or admitted to a lunatic asylum, as a blood relative, a person allied by
marriaged, a spouse, a guardian or a coguardian, a curator or a cocurator.
2nd-ly, any person who without valid reasons for excuse neither appears in person nor, where this is
permitted, appears through a proxy, when summoned before the orphan’s court or, at its invitation,
before the head of the police in cases concerning minors or concerning persons to be placed or
placed under guardianship;
3rd-ly, any person who without valid reasons for excuse neither appears in person nor, where this is
permitted, appears through a proxy, when summoned before the Guardian’s Supervisory Board or, at
its invitation, before the head of the police in cases concerning minors.

Article 525
(1) Any person who, at the time of existing danger for the general security of persons or property or at the
time when a crime is caught in the very act, refuses to render his assistance, required by the public
authority, which he is able to render without immediately exposing himself to danger, shall be punished by
a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.
(2) This provision shall, in case of the assistance required at the time when a crime is caught in the very act,
not apply to the person who refuses to render said assistance in order to elude or to avert danger of

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and third degree of the side-line, or of his spouse of ex-spouse.

Article 526
Any person who unlawfully tears off, makes illegible or damages an announcement put up in public on behalf of
the competent authority or under a statutory provision, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

Article 527
Abrogated (Statute-Book 1955 – 28).

Article 528
(1) By a maximum light imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be
punished the person who, without the permission of the competent authority:
1st, makes a copy or abstract of official papers of the state or its organs, of which the public authority
has ordered their secrecy;
2nd-ly, wholly or partially publishes papers as referred to under 1st;
3rd-ly, publishes data implied in papers referred to under 1st while it is likely that he reasonably should
have presumed the secret nature of the said data.
(2) The fact shall not be punished if the order to secrecy has obviously been given for other reasons than the
interest of the office or the public interest.

CHAPTER IV
Misdemeanours relating to descent and marriage

Article 529
Any person who does not fulfil a statutory obligation to give notice to the official or middleman of the registrar’s
office for the registers of birth or death, shall be punished by a maximum fine of hundred rupiahs.

Article 530
(1) Any minister of the religion who performs a religious ceremony relating to a marriage which may only be
solemnized in the presence of the official of the registrar’s office, before the parties give proof to him that
her marriage has been solemnized in the presence of such official, shall be punished by a maximum fine
of three hundred rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, may, instead of the fine, be
imposed a maximum light imprisonment of two months.

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Misdemeanours relating to destitute persons

Article 531
Any person who, witnessing the immediate danger of life that befalls another, fails to extend or provide the
assistance which he is capable to extend or provide to him without reasonably danger for himself or another,
shall, if the death of the destitute person follows, be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of three months
or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

CHAPTER VI
Misdemeanours relating to morals

Article 532
By a maximum light imprisonment of three days or a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who in public sings songs offensive to chastity;
2nd-ly, any person who in public gives addresses offensive to chastity;
3rd-ly, any person who at a place visible from the public road puts up words or drawings offensive to chastity.

Article 533
By a maximum light imprisonment of the months or a maximum fine of two hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who at or alongside place destined for public traffic openly exhibits or puts up either a
writing, of which the legible title, cover or contents is appropriate to stimulate the sensuality of the
youth, or a portrait or an article appropriate to stimulate the sensuality of the youth;
2nd-ly, any person who at or alongside places destined for public traffic openly announces the contents of a
writing which is appropriate to stimulate the sensuality of the youth;
3rd-ly, any person who openly or unrequestly offers, or openly or by disseminating a writing unrequestedly
shows where a writing, a portrait or an article appropriate to stimulate the sensuality of the youth is
available;
4th-ly, any person who offers, hands over permanently or temporarily, delivers or shows such writings, such
portrait or such article to a minor under the age of seventeen years;
5th-ly, any person who announces the contents of such writing in the presence of a minor under the age of
seventeen years.

Article 534
Any person who either openly exhibits means for preventing pregnancy, or openly or unrequestedly offers, or
openly or, by disseminating a writing, unrequestedly shows where such means or services for the prevention of
pregnancy are available, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine

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Article 535
Any person who either openly exhibits means for the disturbance of pregnancy, or openly or unrequestedly offers
or shows where such means or services for the disturbance of pregnancy are available, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 536
(1) Any person who is found in an obvious state of drunkenness on the public road, shall be punished by a
maximum fine of fifteen rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of
the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour, or the one described in article 492, has become final,
instead of the fine, may be imposed a maximum light imprisonment of three days.
(3) On a second repetition within a year after the first conviction on account of a repetition has become final,
shall be imposed a maximum light imprisonment of two weeks.
(4) On third or following repetitions committed each time within a year after the last conviction on account of a
second or following repetition has become final, shall be imposed a maximum light imprisonment of three
months.

Article 537
Any person who sells or offers liquor or fermented palmwine outside the military canteen to a soldier of the army
under the rank of a non-commissioned officer or to his, wife, child or servant, shall be punished by a maximum
light imprisonment of three weeks or a maximum fine of one hundred rupiahs.

Article 538
The seller of the liqour or his substitute who in the exercise of his profession serves or sells liquor or fermented
palmwine to a child under the age of sixteen, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of three weeks
or a maximum fine of one hundred rupiahs.

Article 539
Any person who on the occasion of celebrating publicly festivals or games or keeping publicly processions,
supplies free of charge or offers as a reward liquor or fermented palmwine, shall be punished by a maximum
light imprisonment of twelve days or a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.

Article 540
(1) By a maximum light imprisonment of eight days or a maximum fine of one hundred and fifty rupiahs shall
be punished:
1st, any person who sets animals to work which obviously exceeds their strength;
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112 / 117 3rd-ly, any person who sets cripple, otherwise defective, scabby, wounded or obviously pregnant or
nursing animals to work, for which owing to their condition they are unfit, or in a painful or
tormenting manner;
4th-ly, any person who needlessly transport or causes to transport animals in a painful or tormenting
manner;
5th-ly, any person who transport or causes to transport animals without providing them or causing to
provide them with the necessary sustenance.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of
the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour or one of the misdemeanours described in article 541
or on account of the crime described in article 302 has become final, a maximum light imprisonment of
fourteen days may be imposed.

Article 541
(1) By a maximum fine of fifteen rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any person who for carrying, riding or hauling services uses horses which have not yet changed
their colt teeth or where the two inner horse-teeth of the front- (upper) -jaw have not yet come in
friction with the inner horse-teeth of the rear-(under) -jaw;
2nd-ly, any person who causes horses, which have not yet changed their colt teeth or where the two
inner-horse-teeth of the front-(upper) -jaw have not yet come in friction with the innerhorse-teeth
of the rear- (under) -jaw, to carry harnest or fastens or attaches them to a carriage or to a
draught-animal;
3rd-ly, any user of a mare who allows a colt who does not yet have all six colt teeth, to run along with
the mother-horse, when she is being used for carrying, riding or hauling services.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not elapsed since an earlier conviction of the
offender on account of similar misdemeanours or one of the misdemeanours described in article 540 or
on account of the crime described in article 302 has become final, instead of the fine, may be imposed a
maximum light imprisonment of three days.

Article 542
(1) By a maximum light imprisonment of one month or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be
punished:
1st, any person who makes use of an occasion open to a game of chance, contrary to the provisions
of article 303;
2nd-ly, any person who on or at the side of a public road or at a place open to the public participates in
a game of chance, unless by the thereto competent authority permission has been granted hold
said game of chance.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the offender on account of one of ‘these misdemeanours has become final, a maximum light

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Article 543
Revoked.

Article 544
(1) Any person who without the permission of the head of the police or of the official designated by the head
of the police, on or at the side of a public road or at a place open to the public holds a cock- or cricket
fight, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five
rupiahs.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of
the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, the sentences may be doubled.

Article 545
(1) Any person who makes a business of fortune telling, prophesying or explaining dreams, shall be punished
by a maximum light imprisonment of six days or a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.
(2) If during the ‘commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of
the offender on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, the sentences may be doubled.

Article 546
By a maximum light imprisonment of three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be
punished:
1st, any person who sells, offers for sale, delivers, distributes or has in stock for sale or distribution
socalled jimats, talismans or other objects, under pretence that these objects posses supernatural
power;
2nd-ly, any person who given instructions in “limns” or tricks purporting to raise the belief in the possibility to
commit punishable offenses without any danger to the perpetrators.

Article 547
Any witness who at the session where in cases in which by a statutory provision a statement on oath is required,
he has to make a declaration on oath, carries with him socalled jimats or talismans, shall be punished by a
maximum light imprisonment of ten days or a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

CHAPTER VII
Misdemeanours relating to yards and premises

Article 548
Any person who, without being thereto entitled, leaves his nonflying-out poultry animals wandering in yards or on

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Article 549
Any person who, without being thereto entitled, leaves cattle wandering in yards, on a meadow- grass- or hay-
land, or on premises which are either sowed or planted, or prepared to be sown or planted, or of which the crop
has not yet been taken, or over another’s premises of which the admittance has been prohibited by the rightful
claimant in a manner obvious to him, shall be punished by a maximum fine of twenty five rupiahs.
The cattle with which the misdemeanour has been committed may be forfeited.
If during the commission of the misdemeanour one year has not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction of the
offender on account of a similar misdemeanour has become final, instead of the fine, may be imposed a maxi-
mum light imprisonment of fourteen days.

Article 550
Any person who without being thereto entitled, walks or drives on premises which are sown or planted, or which
are prepared to be sown or planted, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifteen rupiahs.

Article 561
Any person who without being thereto entitled, walks or rides over another’s premises of which the admittance
has been prohibited by the rightful claimant in a manner obvious to him, shall be punished by a maximum fine of
fifteen rupiahs.

CHAPTER VIII
Misdemeanours by officials

Article 552
Any official, authorized to issue copies abstracts of judgments, who issues such copy or abstract before the
judgment has been properly signed, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

Article 553
Abrogated.

Article 554
By a maximum light imprisonment of two months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished
any ex-official who without the permission of the competent authority keeps with him official documents of the
state or its organs.

Article 555
Any head of an institution, destined for the locking up of convicted persons, temporarily detained persons or
persons imprisoned for debt, or of an approved school of the state or lunatic asylum, who admits someone to or

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be shown to himself, or who fails to make the required entry in his registers of the said admittance and of the
order or the verdict on the ground of which it takes place, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of
one month or a maximum fine of hundred and fifty rupiahs.

Article 556
Any official of the registrar’s office who gails prior to the solemnization of a marriage to cause the evidence or the
statements which are required by general regulation to be produced to himself, shall be punished by a maximum
fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 557
By a maximum fine of hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any official of the registrar’s office who acts contrary to a provision of a general regulation concerning
the registers or the deeds of the registrar’s office, the formalities prior to a marriage or the
solemnization of a marriage;
2nd-ly, any other keeper of the said registers who acts contrary to a provision of a general regulation
concerning the registers of the deeds of the registrar’s office.

Article 557 a
Any middleman of the registrar’s office who acts contrary to a provision of the rules on the maintenance of the
registers of the registrar’s office for the Chinese, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifty rupiahs.

Article 558
Any official of the registrar’s office who fails to enter a deed in the registers or to put down a deed on a loose
leaf, shall be punished by a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 558 a
Any middleman of the registrar’s office who fails to make up a deed or to write a deed on a loose leaf of a
declaration made to him pursuant to the provisions on the maintenance of the registers of the registrar’s office
for the Chinese, shall be punished by a maximum fine of hundred and fifty rupiahs.

Article 659
By a maximum fine of hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any official of the registrar’s office who fails to submit to the competent authority the statements
required from him by a statutory provision;
2nd-ly, any official who fails to submit to the official of the registrar’s office the statements required from him
by a statutory provision.

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Misdemeanour relating to navigation

Article 560
Any skipper of an Indonesian ship who sails before the musterrol required under statutory provision has been
drawn up and signed, shall be punished by a maximum fine of hundred rupiahs.

Article 561
Any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who does not have on board all the ship’s papers, books or documents
required by or under statutory provision, shall be punished by a maximum fine of one hundred rupiahs.

Article 562
(1) By a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs shall be punished:
1st, any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who does not care that aboard the vessel the diaries
required by general regulation are kept according to the statutory provisions or does not produce
the said diaries when and where this is required by a statutory provision;
2nd-ly, any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who does not keep the punishment-book required by
general regulation according to the statutory provisions or does not produce the said
punishment-book when and where this is required by a statutory provision;
3rd-ly, any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who in the absence of a punishment-book fails to supply the
judge with the informations required by a statutory provision;
4th-ly, any owner, book-keeper or skipper of an Indonesian vessel who refuses to grant an inspection of
the diaries kept on board the vessel, or against payment for the costs, to furnish copies thereof
to parties concerned at their request.
(2) If during the commission of the misdemeanour two years have not yet elapsed since an earlier conviction
of the offender on account of one of these misdemeanours has become final, instead of the fine, may be
imposed a maximum light imprisonment of two months.

Article 563
Any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who does not fulfil his statutory obligation concerning the registration and
notification of births or deaths which have occurred during a sea-voyage, shall be punished by a maximum fine
of one hundred rupiahs.

Article 564
Any skipper or member of the crew who does not observe the statutory provisions laid down for the prevention of
collisions or for being washed ashore, shall be punished by a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 565

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mark, of which the use by virtue of a statutory provision is explicity adjudged to hospital ships, to boats of such
ships or to small vessels destined for the hospital service, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of
one month or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 566
Any skipper of an Indonesian vessel who does not fulfil the obligations imposed upon him in the second
paragraph of article 358 a of the Code of Commerce, shall be punished by a maximum light imprisonment of
three months or a maximum fine of three hundred rupiahs.

Article 567
Any owner and any captain of an Indonesian ship aboard of which is performed crew’s service by persons who
neither have concluded a work agreement as referred to in article 395 of the Code of Commerce, nor on one’s•
own account perform a business on board, or by persons who do not appear in the muster-roll in the cases
where is required under statutory provision, shall be punished by a maximum fine of sixty rupiahs for each
person who is thus employed.

Article 568
Any person who signs a bill of lading the issuance of which is contrary to the provision in article 517 b of the
Code of Commerce, and also the person for whom he performs this act according to his competency, shall, if
afterwards issuance follows, be punished by a maximum fine of five thousand rupiahs.

Article 569
(1) Any person who signs a ticket the issuance of which is contrary to the provision in article 533 b of the
Code of Commerce, and also the person for whom he performs this act according to his competency,
shall, if the issuance follows, be punished by a maximum fine of five thousand rupiahs.
(2) By a similar punishment shall be punished any person who contrary to the provision in article 533 b of the
Code Commerce issues an unsigned ticket, and also any person for whom he performs this act according
to his competency.