Peer Review IMPLEMENTASI PENEGAKKAN UU PERS TERHADAP DELIK PERS DAN KEKERASAN JURNALIS DI TAHUN 2020

Press in developing countries such as Indonesia is a manifestation of the implementation of democracy. Its vital role as a distributor of information and confirmation for the public, as well as the shaper of public opinion makes the press as the 4th pillar of a country's buffer. The existence of the press certainly requires juridical support, and is currently implemented in Law No. 40 of 1999 on the Press. With this Law, the press has a legal umbrella and restrictions in carrying out its role as social control in society. But not without loopholes, the implementation of the Press Law also encountered many obstacles that were perceived to be detrimental to the press itself. The constraints are related to the absence of criminal deliberation in the Press Law regulated in the Criminal Code because the Press Law is considered not a lex specialist of the Criminal Code. This has an impact on many press deliberations that cannot be solved by the Press Law but rather through the Criminal Code. This paper discusses the deliberations of the press and the violence of journalists in 2020 due to the paradok of this Press Law. As a result there are still journalists who get sentences by the courts and the increasing violence against journalists carried out by the public as well as the security forces.