Fine criminal sanction is one of the sanctions of which is often used for
managing the criminal action of traffic violation. Fine criminal sanction is
regulated in the Act Number 14 of 1992 on Traffic and Highway Transportation,
and is purposed to depress the level of traffic violation of which often occur in
Indonesia. However it will be a new problem if by the existence of this fine
criminal sanction, traffic violation instead increases and often behaves as the
primary reason of traffic accident. In this legal writing, the author conducted a
research to know whether the fine criminal sanction of which is regulated in the
Act Number 14 of 1992 can depress the level of traffic violation in Sleman
Regency. This research was directly conducted in field and focused on legal
societal behaviours (law in action). Based on the result of author’s findings, it
founded any fact that traffic violation that occurred in Sleman Regency increase
over time in the period of last three years. It proved that the fine criminal sanction
of which is regulated in the Act Number 14 of 1992 is not effective in depressing
the level of traffic violation in Sleman Regency. Thus, it has been appropriate that
this regulation is substituted with the new one. Currently, the government is
preparing new draft of law on Traffic and Highway Transportation for substituting
the Act Number 14 of 1992. Hopefully, this draft of law will be more effective in
depressing the level of traffic violation in Indonesia.