Transnational Crime; State Losses Due to Illegal Smuggling (Study on Illegal Importier In North Rupat Island – Indonesia)

Latif, Syahrul and Tutrianto, Rio and Sulaiman, Sulaiman (2021) Transnational Crime; State Losses Due to Illegal Smuggling (Study on Illegal Importier In North Rupat Island – Indonesia). In: 2 nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS 2021 (ICOGPA2021), 6-7 April 2021, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, MALAYSIA.

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Abstract

Transnational crime is the kind of crime that is difficult to handle because it involves the juridical law from two countries that is involve in this crime. The form of crime that occurs is illegal importer. An illegal importer is very detrimental action for the state, it is dangerous when the goods that being imported illegally are something that can be harmful and endanger the state and even society. Therefore, this activity is classified as a transnational crime or cross border crime. The crime that is committed by illegal importers are one of the reason why the national development is grow slowly. By using a quantitative approach, the research are going to do deep interviews to a selected speakers. This study explained the factors of why illegal importers are selling the imported foods and drinks illegally, it can be explain by the factors of people, the geographical location that is very close to Malaysia, and it makes the people become accustomed by consuming illegal imported products until now. The perpetrators are trying to get and sell the illegal imported products to the people continuously, it also because the facilities that facilitate so the illegal imported products can be obtained and sold to the public. For example, it can be ordering through ABK ships that export fish to Malaysia. ABK ship is given the right by the State to shop in Malaysia about 50USD but for personal consumption, but utilized by the ABK and the sellers of illegal imported products to be sell it to public. Not only that, weak supervision from relevant agencies is also one of the factors that make illegal imported products still widely circulated in the community in Tanjung Medang village, North Rupat District. Keywords: Illegal Importers, Rupat Utara, Society, Transnational Crime

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