Hang Tuah Law Journal
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2, OKTOBER 2017

Corporate Liability on the Crime of Producing, Distributing, and Utilizing Non-Standard Vaccines

Achmad Ardiansyah Akbar (Universitas Airlangga)



Article Info

Publish Date
16 Oct 2017

Abstract

Immunization is a mandatory program by government for every child in Indonesia. In 2016, however, the vaccine used for children‟s immunization was found under standardized or unqualified. It was mixed with particular substances which might lead the users into some allergies, minor or severe injuries, trauma, and even danger their lives. Parents certainly fully entrusted their children‟s immunization to the competent. The crime of producing, distributing, and using non-standard vaccines involved many parties both individuals and corporations, ranging from the task of producing, distributing, and up to injecting the vaccines into children. With the enormous profits of the crime, however, only private parties were sued while the corporations were still free from any accusation and thus, it made them have potential chances to redo such crime, violating medical laws, consumer protection laws, Money laundering legislation, and up to brand and geographical indications. This study was a legal research with statute and conceptual approaches. It aimed to investigate the provisions of producing and distributing non-standard vaccines by corporations and to analyze their liability on such crime. The results, conclusions, suggestions, and recommendations for the problem were discussed.

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jurnal

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Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Hang Tuah Law Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal to publish the manuscripts of high-quality research as well as conceptual analysis that studies in any fields of Law, such as Maritime Law, Medical Law, Civil Law, Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Business Law, Islamic ...