Law Enforcement Against the Criminal Acts of Human Trafficking in Mataram City

This article analyzes law enforcement against the Crime of Human Trafficking based on the decisions of the Mataram District Court for 2023-2025. It focuses on the process of investigation, inquiry, prosecution, and sentencing patterns for perpetrators, as well as obstacles to law enforcement reflected in the decisions. This research is a normative legal research with a statutory approach, a case approach, and a conceptual approach. The results show that law enforcement against human trafficking in Mataram City has used a special legal framework for human trafficking, but still faces problems in proving the elements of the act, method, and purpose of exploitation, especially when exploitation has not actually occurred or the facts of the case overlap with the placement of non-procedural migrant workers. Criminalization shows that judges view human trafficking as a serious crime, but there are still variations in imprisonment, fines, subsidiary sentences, and restitution. The main obstacles include proof, case qualifications, victim protection, victim recovery, and disclosure of perpetrator networks. Law enforcement against human trafficking needs to be strengthened through comprehensive case construction, coordination between authorities, and a victim recovery orientation.

Law Enforcement; Human Trafficking; Criminalization; Restitution; Mataram City

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