Peran Penyidik Bea dan Cukai dalam Pemberantasan Tindak Pidana Penyelundupan Bawang Merah (Studi pada Kantor Wilayah Direktorat Jenderal Bea Cukai Sumatera Utara)

Abstract

Shallot is one of the leading vegetable commodities that has been cultivated for a long time by farmers intensively. This vegetable commodity belongs to an unsubstituted spice group which serves as a flavoring for food and traditional medicine. Demand for shallots continues to increase in line with the increase in population. The criminal act of smuggling shallots is very detrimental and disturbs the balance of the life of the Indonesian people. State losses due to smuggling reached trillions of rupiah. The mode that was carried out generally outsmarted various facilities of export-import facilities that were given by Customs.The problem in this study is how the legal process carried out by Customs and Excise in handling the smuggling of shallot smuggling in the North Sumatra region, how the obstacles experienced by Customs and Excise investigators in eradicating the onion smuggling crime and how to deal with the measures carried out by Customs investigators and Excise in eradicating the criminal act of smuggling shallots.The research method in this study can be done in the following ways: library research (Library Research). This method by conducting research on various written reading sources from scholars, namely theory books about law, legal magazines, legal journals as well as lecture materials and regulations concerning criminal acts. Field research (Field Research), namely by doing spaciousness in this case the author immediately conducted a study at the Directorate General of Customs and Excise by taking some data relating to the title of the thesis, namely the case of the onion smuggling crime.The Customs and Excise legal process in handling criminal acts of onion smuggling in North Sumatra is when captured all evidence seized by Customs and Excise then carried out a preliminary examination of the suspected smugglers, then after sufficient initial evidence is obtained, the investigation process can proceed and delegated to the Attorney General of the Republic of Indonesia to be processed in accordance with the provisions of the applicable legislation. Constraints faced by Customs and Excise investigators in eradicating criminal acts of onion smuggling are the vast sea area of Indonesia, and the lack of sophisticated equipment in tracing smugglers and the increasing tricks of smugglers in carrying out their businesses, making it difficult for the perpetrators to be arrested. Efforts to address Customs and Excise investigators in eradicating the onion smuggling crime are to improve the quality of facilities and infrastructure for operations and customs information and enhance cooperation and coordination with other law enforcement agencies. The government increases in producing its own onions so that it does not need to import from the outside.