THE URGENCY OF INTERNATIONAL REGULATION REGARDING CYBER ATTACK WITH AN INDICATION OF AGGRESSION CRIME IN ASEAN

Abstract

The development of technology brings change to human life, the change of most human activity to cyber is a challenge for every country in the world today. Cyber-attack is one of a crime that developed rapidly along with the development of information, technology, and communication (ICT). Based on the impact, cyber-attack can be seen as a crime that is indicated as an aggression crime. The main focus of this research is to determine the urgency of cyber-attack regulation as a crime that is indicated as aggression, and to find out to what extent the international community has made cyber-crime as the focus of contemporary crime studies that are indicated as a crime of aggression. This type of research is a normative legal study with a qualitatively data analysis which contain the urgency of international regulation regarding on cyber attack with an indication of aggression crime. The conclusion of this research is that an international cooperation is needed in order to realize an international regulation that are respected and universally recognized by international community regarding on cyber attack and their handling as a crime that can be indicated as a crime of aggression. Because cyberattack are cross-border, the cooperation expected in this research is a regional based cooperation, such as cooperation in a scope of ASEAN.