ANALISIS YURIDIS TENTANG PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP HEWAN PADA TINDAK PIDANA ANIMAL ABUSE DI INDONESIA

Abstract

Animal abuse has recently emerged and has gone viral on social media.
The high number of abandoned animals also affects the number of cases of animal
abuse. The factor of the Indonesian population who also does not understand
about animal cruelty makes animal abuse often occur. Many regulations related
to animal protection are currently unknown to the public and even law
enforcement officials themselves. Weak punishment for animal abuse in the
Criminal Code is an obstacle in protecting the animals around us. Therefore,
legal protection for animals in the crime of animal abuse is needed to reform to
enforce the law and protect the existence of animals from human evil treatment of
animals considering that animals are also living creatures that do not deserve to
be hurt.
This type of research is normative juridical research, namely research
conducted by examining literature discussions with secondary data sources
consisting of primary legal materials in the form of laws and regulations,
secondary legal materials from legal books, and tertiary legal materials in the
form of dictionaries. Then the data were analyzed qualitatively, namely analyzing
the data descriptively obtained from secondary data.
From the results of the study it was concluded that, first, the legal
regulation of animal protection in Indonesia uses Law Number 41 of 2014
concerning Animal Husbandry and Animal Health, amendments to Law Number
18 of 2009 concerning Animal Husbandry and Health, Government Regulation
Number 95 of 2012 concerning Animal Husbandry and Animal Health. Veterinary
Public Health and Animal Welfare and the Criminal Code. Article 302 for
imposing punishment on perpetrators of criminal acts of animal abuse is Article
302, which has a weak sentence and the sanctions do not provide a deterrent
effect to perpetrators of criminal acts of animal abuse. Second, the urgency of
renewing regulations to protect animals from criminal acts of abuse is needed, to
protect animals from persecution and until now new rules regarding animal
protection are currently contained in the RKUHP which it is not yet known when
it will be ratified.
Keywords: Analysis-Legal Protection-Animal-Criminal-Abuse