Illegal drugs, especially narcotics, are a transnational crime and need serious
handling because they may affect generation to generation. There are many penalties
regulated in Undang-Undang No. 35 Tahun 2009, and one of those is fines. This legal
research aims to determine judges' considerations in imposing significant decisions
regarding penalties in narcotics crime cases. This research is normative legal
research using statutory and case approaches. The legal sources used in this
research are literature studies and interviews. Based on the results of the study, the
judge's considerations in imposing a fine penalty decision other than complying with
the provisions of the law concerned also look at the defendant's background. The
amount of the fine is to give a deterrent effect to the perpetrators of narcotics crimes.
Still, in reality, it is rare for defendants who are sentenced to pay fines to pay, and
they prefer to serve prison sentences as a substitute for fines rather than having to
pay a huge fine.