LEGAL PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF ADULTERY

Abstract

Adultery set in the KUHP has a weakness in defining act of adultery which is different from the living law.
There are individual victims and community who have no legal protection. Therefore, legal protection for victims
of adultery is necessary. This research is a normative legal research with normative juridical approach. The data
used are secondary data which were analyzed using qualitative methods of juridical analysis. The results of this
study concluded that legal protection for victims of adultery can be done through legal discovery by a judge or
through criminalization policy accommodating the living law.
Keywords: Protection, Victims, Adultery.