<![CDATA[Legal language serves as a medium of communication within the legal sphere, utilized by practitioners and legal experts in contexts such as regulations, agreements, official correspondence, and court rulings. For the general public, legal language enables a clear and precise understanding of legal messages and norms—thereby clarifying rights, obligations, and applicable rules—which supports the maintenance of order and legal certainty. This study aims to analyze the text of captions associated with the dissemination of pornographic content on social media—as found in a specific court ruling—through the lens of forensic linguistics. The research employs a normative-juridical approach and qualitative descriptive analysis, utilizing Court Ruling Number 166/Pid.B/2018/PN.Dpk. The data consists of the caption text from the pornographic content posts cited in the ruling, which are analyzed from a forensic linguistic perspective. Data analysis was conducted using an interactive analysis model comprising data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion drawing. The analysis is grounded in criminal law elements and linguistic theory within the framework of forensic linguistics. The study's findings indicate that: (1) the caption text accompanying the pornographic content on social media is shown to satisfy the elements of a criminal offense as stipulated in Law Number 44 of 2008 concerning Pornography; and (2) analysis of the caption text from a forensic linguistic perspective allows for the identification of implicit meanings, thereby substantiating the legal violation—specifically, the fulfillment of criminal elements regarding the dissemination of pornographic content on social media.]]>
