Ordinary Receiving Stolen Goods or Receiving Stolen Goods in Basic Form

The crime of ordinary receiving stolen goods is regulated in Article 480 of Law Number 1 of 1946 concerning Criminal Law Regulations (KUHP) is threatened with a maximum imprisonment of 4 (four) years or a maximum fine of Rp. 900.00 (nine hundred rupiah), namely “anyone who buys, rents, receives exchanges, receives pawn, receives as a gift, or because of the desire to receive profit, sells, exchanges, pawns, carries, stores or hides an item that he knows or should suspect is obtained because of a crime.” In addition, receiving stolen goods also means that if it is known or should be suspected that the item was obtained from a criminal act, the perpetrator takes profit from the proceeds of an item.

In the new Criminal Code Article 591 of Law Number 1 of 2023, the crime of ordinary receiving stolen goods is threatened with a maximum imprisonment of 4 (four) years or a maximum fine of category V of Rp. 500,000,000.00 (five hundred million rupiah).

Ordinary receiving stolen goods is a combination of intentional and negligent offenses, which is marked by the words “should be able to know” that the item comes from a crime. This is called the offense of pro parte doleus pro parte culpa or half intentional and half negligent.