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Abstract

The regional economic integration that ensues from the ASEAN Economy Community will provide its members not only with boundless opportunities for economic growth, but also with unprecedented challenges. The demands of a more interconnected regional economy would require the Indonesian government, as guardians of the competitive process in the Indonesian market, to protect it from anticompetitive conduct caused from both within and outside of its borders. However, there is a major gap since Indonesia’s current competition law does not provide KPPU with the jurisdiction to investigate, prosecute or punish violations committed by business actors located outside of Indonesia’s territory. Thus, this paper examines the implementation of the extraterritoriality principle to enable the KPPU and Indonesian courts to exercise jurisdiction over foreign business actors who violate Indonesia’s competition law from abroad. This paper employs a comparative approach to analyse the development of the extraterritoriality principle in US’, EU’s, Singapore’s and Malaysia’s competition law. This article concludes by determining how the extraterritoriality principle should be implemented to strengthen Indonesia’s competition law enforcement.

Bahasa Abstract

Integrasi ekonomi regional yang terjadi melalui Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN akanmemberikan para negara anggotanya tidak hanya kesempatan untuk pertumbuhan ekonomi yang besar, namun tantangan yang besar pula. Ekonomi regional yang semakin saling terhubung ini akan menuntut pemerintah Indonesia, sebagai penjaga proses persaingan dalam pasar Indonesia, untuk melindunginya dari perbuatan anti persaingan yang berasal baik dari dalam maupun dari luar wilayahnya. Sementara, ada ketidakselarasan karena rezim hukum persaingan usaha yang sekarang berlaku di Indonesia tidak memberikan wewenang kepada KPPU untuk menginvestigasi, menindak maupun menghukum pelanggaran yang dilakukan oleh pelakuusaha yang berada diluar wilayah Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, makalah ini mengkaji penerapan asas ekstra teritorialitas untuk memungkinkan KPPU dan Pengadilan Indonesia untuk memiliki yurisdiksi terhadap pelakuusaha asing yang melanggar hukum persaingan usaha Indonesia dari luar negeri. Makalah ini akan meggunakan pendekatan komparatif untuk menganalisa perkembangan asas ekstra teritorialitas pada hukum persaingan Amerika Serikat, Uni Eropa, Singapura dan Malaysia. Makalah ini akan ditutup dengan menyimpulkan bagaimana asas ekstra teritorialitas sebaiknya diterapkan untuk memperkuat penegakan hukum persaingan usaha di Indonesia.

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