Ius Positum: Journal of Journal Of Law Theory And Law Enforcement
Vol. 1 Issue. 3 (2022)

Legal Protection for Consumers as Victims of Swab/PCR Tests Based on Regulation Number 8 of 1999 Regarding Consumer Protection

Raditya Aufar Dewangga (Bhayangkara University Surabaya)
Sinarianda Kurnia Hartantien (Bhayangkara University Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
11 Aug 2022

Abstract

In the current pandemic era, it is clear that compliance with procedures is needed and has a huge impact on the pandemic period completion. Besides the use of masks and social distancing, some of the processes needed are condust the tests to detect the viruses routinely, one of them is the antigen test. This is based to the Minister of Health's Decree No. 234/2020 which was issued on April 7th, 2020, where all laboratories in Indonesia are required to implement early identification and report the result to the local Health Office. However, this turned out to be a new crime that violated the right of customers indirectly through the falsification of test result by service provider. In a similar case, legal efforts are always discussed in the direction of criminality, while on the one hand there are consumer rights or consumer protections that have been violated. In this study, the author discusses legal protection for consumers who are maltreated by fake SWAB/PCR tests as well as the government's responsibilities and efforts in providing legal protection to consumers who are harmed by fake SWAB/PCR tests. In this study, the authors use the Juridical-Normative Research method where the legal materials obtained from secondary legal materials with statutory and case approach. In this study, researchers using a descriptive analytical specification to obtain the answers from the problem statement that has been determined by the researchers.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jlte

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Ius Positum (Journal of Law Theory and Law Enforcement) is an open acces journal which affiliated with a law firm JF Law Firm. Ius Positum facilitates academics, researchers and legal practitioners to contribute in publishing articles that include original academic thoughts in field of Law Theory ...