Kebebasan Pers dalam Konteks KUHP Pidana: Menyoal Undang-Undang sebagai Fungsi Komunikasi

Abstract

In his book, The Limits of Law, Anthony Allots stated that regulation is no more that a communication system based on Wittgenstein’s phrase: the language game. Regulations always ask the same questions: who’s the actor of communication? For whom the regulations been imposed? How did its communication method? What were communication obstacles which disturbed the communication process? Speaking about press regulations, which cutting-off and narrowing the freedom of press in Indonesia as imposed by KUH Pidana, it was clear enough that such regulation’s function mainly part of repressive acts, not preventive purposes.

Keywords

• kebebasan pers, language game, tindakan represif