PENGATURAN TERHADAP PELAKU PROSTITUSI MENGGUNAKANAPLIKASI MICHAT DALAM HUKUM PIDANA INDONESIA

Abstract

Online prostitution is a practice of prostitution that uses internet social media as a means of
communication or a liaison between commercial sex workers (PKS), pimps and their users. Social
media that is often used by commercial sex workers and pimps recently is MiChat social media.
MiChat is a private messaging application as well as group messaging, sharing photos,
videos and voice messages. MiChat has an excellent feature, namely People Nearby where users
can find new friends based on the closest location. This feature is often misused by commercial sex
workers (PSK), and pimps in carrying out the criminal act of online prostitution. In a sense, this
application can connect a person with people whose location is nearby, that is, within a certain
radius, by presenting a profile photo and location distance, so that service users are not difficult to
find prostitution service providers that suit their tastes. The offer of commercial sex services by
commercial sex workers is carried out via chat on the MiChat application.
Not only that, online prostitution activities in the MiChat application will further develop if
the parties involved in the practice of misusing the MiChat application as a means of online
prostitution crime are not given appropriate punishments according to the actions they have
committed, then they will continue to repeat them and always feel safe. from legal bondage.
Therefore, a firm legal policy is needed in handling online prostitution cases in the MiChat
application for parties involved in this practice, with the aim of obtaining an effective solution in
handling these cases.
This research will examine the main issues according to the scope and identification of
problems through a normative juridical approach. Based on normative research methods, the data
sources used in this research are secondary data sources which consist of 3 legal materials,
namely: primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and tertiary legal materials. Data
collected from literature studies.

Keywords: Regulation - Prostitutes - Michat Application - Indonesian CriminalLaw