Hasbullah, M. A. (2022). Identifying the effects of cybercrime on business laws: Implications for businesses and consumers. International Journal of Cyber Criminology. https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/112

This article evaluates how Indonesia’s business law are impacted by cyber crime and how businesses are affected by cyber threats that are rapidly becoming more common and dangerous. This particular topic relates to many different social science principles because cyber security is a highly interdisciplinary subject, especially when it comes to relativism. Relativism is the concept that all things are related or connected in some way. Because of this, we can understand the importance of realizing that cyber crime in Indonesia will, in some way, affect other countries and their laws regarding the cyber world and is not isolated to only that country. This article is also objective in the way it compiled and evaluated its data. The researchers used information from existing literature and business laws, acts, and policies to gain a better understanding of the existing standards regarding cyber law when it comes to businesses. The researchers of this article remained objective in evaluating the information and determining an unbiased result while also simplifying the existing information from previous studies, thus satisfying the social science principle of parsimony. This article also clearly shows that determinism plays a large role in the ever-evolving business laws of Indonesia, as well as other countries. Due to the rise of cybercrime and the rapid influx of cybercriminals, business law has been required to adapt and learn from what did or did not work in the past and adjust the laws and policies to further secure businesses, especially e-businesses. Since all of their business transactions are conducted online, they are the most susceptible to being targeted by cybercriminals.
This article analyzed the existing laws for cyber crime and studied the effectiveness of them when it comes to protecting the businesses in Indonesia. The researchers also compiled information from previous surveys conducted on cyber victims and evaluated it against the current laws to determine how successful they are in preventing or deterring cybercriminals. Other existing surveys on the topics of worldwide cybercrime were also evaluated to determine the effectiveness of the current cyber laws.
This article stresses the importance of improved cyber laws and policies, especially in Asia-Pacific regions due to the severe lack of digital awareness. The researchers of this article also highlight that there is a large opportunity for hackers in the Asian region because of these vulnerabilities. They also discussed the importance of more clearly defined cyber laws because many of the current laws do not clearly define what a cyber threat actually is and therefore, are not able to be enforced. This article does a thorough job of clearly defining what the current status of cybercrime is and the laws that protect businesses and e-businesses. The researchers of this article clearly defined the opportunities for improvement for laws and policies related to cyber security and why Asian-Pacific regions are more often targeted. They outline the ways that cybercrimes are affecting not only these businesses but the people that patron them since many of these cybercrimes are committed directly through these people. Crimes such as data hacking, cyber harassment, fraudulent bank payments, and general breaches of privacy are all common forms of cyber attacks conducted on both businesses and individuals. Overall, this article provided a thorough investigation into the current state of Indonesian cyber law, the shortcomings of those laws, and the ways that they could be improved in order to better protect Indonesia’s businesses, people, and their general society.