Domestic violence is considered as hidden crime of which had resulted in
a great numbers of victims from various level of society, in discussing this legal
writing hall aim to achieve in the writing of this writer, are as follows: to
determine how is effective the legal process towards the husbands as perpetrator
of domestic violence towards his wife, and to determine there is or not the
barriers towards this legal process towards the husbands as perpetrator of
domestic violence towards his wife. This method of writing in this research was
normative legal research. The result of this research is the judge in supervising
and sentencing persistently base on criminal-law procedural code, exceptionally
towards particulars matters regulated in the Law Number 23 of 2004.