Legal Literacy - This article discusses the concept of complicity in Indonesian Criminal Law. How does it continue? Keep reading until the end!

Criminal law stipulates that perpetrators who are proven to have committed a criminal act and can be held criminally responsible can be punished. However, confusion arises in law enforcement when a criminal act is committed by more than one person. Therefore, the Criminal Code Criminal Code (hereinafter referred to as the “KUHP”) accommodates this through the concept of complicity or deelneming.

Complicity in criminal law is an extension of the qualification of the perpetrator of a criminal act when the criminal act is committed by more than one person. Deelneming can be used when several people commit a criminal act, but each of them takes part in the occurrence of the offense so that they must all be punished. Other terms from deelneming, including being involved, committing a crime together, participating, complicity, participation, and others. In the Criminal Code, complicity in criminal law is regulated in Articles 55 to 57.

Qualifications for complicity in criminal law (Criminal Code) are divided into two, namely the maker or dader and the assistant or medeplichtigheid. The makers regulated in Article 55 of the Criminal Code are further divided into those who commit (pleger), those who order to commit (doenpleger), those who participate (medepleger), and those who incite to commit (uitlokker). On the other hand, assistance regulated in Articles 56 and 57 of the Criminal Code is divided into assistance before and at the time the crime is committed.