<![CDATA[This study examines the involvement of housewives in online narcotics trafficking as well as law enforcement practices and their prevention in the context of Indonesian law from a gender justice perspective. The transformation of narcotics trafficking into cyberspace expands the vulnerability of housewives to engage in online distribution networks. This involvement is not just a free choice, but the result of an interaction between gender inequality, structural economic pressures, domestic power relations, and the exploitation of syndicates that use digital technology to recruit and control victims without physical contact. Law enforcement against women perpetrators, as regulated by Law No. 35 of 2009, is still dominated by formalistic and punitive logic. Electronic evidence is more often used to confirm the involvement of lower-level perpetrators than to trace network control actors, so that women are vulnerable to double criminalization, while the principles of proportionality and restorative justice have not been substantively internalized. Prevention requires a situational crime prevention approach that closes opportunities for exploitation through cross-sectoral collaboration, not just normative education. Although BNN has pioneered cooperation with marketplaces, logistics sectors, and extension training, institutional capacity is still limited compared to the scale of the problem, so that gender-responsive and substantive justice-oriented narcotics law reform is an urgent need.]]>
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