ABSTRACTOne attempt to eradicte crime is to use the criminal sanction, most of the means used is imprisonment. Meanwhile, in its development, imprisonment as a state facility of confinement for conficted criminals has got harsh critisicm from many legal exerts. A lot of criticism directed against this kind of criminal forfeiture is the independence, both seen from the effectiveness as well as the views of other negative consequences accompanying the sanction. In the concept of the draft of the new Criminal Code of 1982, it is filed a new criminal sanction, i.e. a sanction of supervision as an alternative to the imprisonment. Imprisonment and supervision or criminal scrutiny is in fact two concepts that are philosophically opposed, because on the one hand, imprisonment needs a convicted person imprisoned inside the institution, and on the other hand the criminal supervision requires the convicted person undergoing outside the institution (in the community), but remains under supervision. The two opposing concepts cause particular consequenses, either weaknesses or advantages. In order to compensate the weaknesses, it is needed a kind of criminal sanction as a balance between imprisonment and supervision. A limited imprisonment is a kind of imprisonment which is expected to achieve a balance between the interests of protection or security of society and the interests of the individual. Furthermore, it can be compromised or exploit the positive impacts (the opposite also means avoiding negative impacts) from imprisonment on the onehand and criminal supervision on the other hand.Key words : Policy, Formulation, Limited Imprisonment.