Online prostitution is the practice of prostitution carried out with or through
internet or online media as a transaction infrastructure for those users and users
who want to use their services. In the Yogyakarta area, the difficulty for the police
to uncover online prostitution syndicates is because most of the prostitution pimps
or pimps are not located in Yogyakarta but outside the city of Yogyakarta. This
study aims to determine the role of the police and the obstacles faced by the DIY
police in dealing with online prostitution. The method in this research is the
method of sociological law or empirical law. The data in this study are primary
data and secondary data. Data analysis was carried out in a descriptive
perspective. The results showed that (1) the role of the DIY police in overcoming
online prostitution was divided into two, namely: the non-penal role was
preventive and the penal role in the form of repressive actions. (2) the constraints
of the DIY police in dealing with online prostitution are internal constraints in
the form of a lack of police personnel in the area who specifically uncover cases
of online prostitution. The external constraint is the difficulty of catching pimps
from different cities and the women they sell.