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VOL. 12, ISSUE 1 (2026)
Criminal sanctions for perpetrators of deepfake technology abuse in defamation on social media
Authors
Made Indah Naraswari, I Nyoman Gede Sugiartha, Ni Made Sukaryati Karma
Abstract
Criminal sanctions for perpetrators of misuse
of deepfake technology in criminal acts of defamation on social media. The
rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, especially deepfake,
is often misused to enable the creation of fake visual or audio content that is
made very realistic, so that it has the potential to damage an individual's
reputation massively and instantly. With this deepfake, perpetrators can easily
manipulate content on social media. The main problems in this study are 1) how
to regulate the misuse of deepfake technology and 2) criminal sanctions for the
misuse of deepfake technology in Indonesian positive law. The research method
used is normative legal research with a statutory and conceptual approach. The
results of the study show that the misuse of deepfakes for defamation is
classified as a criminal act that attacks a person's honor or good name through
electronic information. Criminal sanctions for perpetrators refer to Article
27A of the ITE Law regarding attacks on honor and good name, which carries a
threat of two years' imprisonment or a fine of four hundred million rupiah, as
well as Article 433 paragraph (2) of the Criminal Code regarding written or
pictorial defamation, with a maximum prison sentence of 1 year and 6 months.
This study recommends the need to strengthen specific legal sanctions to
address the increasingly sophisticated challenges of digital content
identification.
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Pages:374-377
How to cite this article:
Made Indah Naraswari, I Nyoman Gede Sugiartha, Ni Made Sukaryati Karma "Criminal sanctions for perpetrators of deepfake technology abuse in defamation on social media". International Journal of Law, Vol 12, Issue 1, 2026, Pages 374-377
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