Juridical Analysis of Criminal Liability for Perpetrators of Recording and Disseminating Pornographic Content through Electronic Media (Study of Decision Number 964/Pid.Sus/2025/PN Sby)

The development of information technology facilitates the hidden recording and dissemination of pornographic content through electronic media, while the criminal law regulation of the two acts is not uniform. This study aims to analyze the criminal law regulation of the act of recording and disseminating pornographic content through electronic media as well as the criminal liability of the perpetrators in the Surabaya District Court Decision Number 964/Pid.Sus/2025/PN Sby. This research is a normative legal research with a legislative, case, and conceptual approach, using primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials collected through literature studies and qualitatively analyzed. The results of the study show that dissemination has been regulated in layers in the Law on Information and Electronic Transactions, the Pornography Law, and the National Criminal Code, while recording without consent has only been expressly regulated in the Sexual Violence Crime Law. In the verdict reviewed, the defendant's criminal liability has been fulfilled, but it is not yet intact because the act of recording is not charged as a separate act, the judge's consideration is not in accordance with the legal facts, the concurrent provisions are not applied, and the sentence imposed does not reflect the weight of the act. This study recommends the affirmation of the element of consent in laws and regulations as well as the preparation of indictments and verdict considerations that reach the entire series of perpetrators.