Abstract :
One criminal case is fraudulent money. Because of the fact as mentioned above, people become
restless. In the framework of criminal law enforcement related to the number of counterfeit
money, the police role is very important. There are several strategies in law enforcement criminal
counterfeiting of money, such is the authenticity of the rupiah to socialize the entire community,
among others, with the slogan "3D". In addition, long-term strategic step for handling the
eradication of counterfeit money has also formed a special coordination forum Coordinating
Agency of Counterfeit Money. Writing this law aims to determine the Yogyakarta Police efforts
in law enforcement criminal counterfeiting of money and to know the obstacles encountered in
law enforcement Yogyakarta Police crime of counterfeiting money. Research carried out using a
normative juridical approach is descriptive. The data obtained in the research literature and field
processed and analyzed in a qualitative analysis of normative data based on what it means
obtained from the literature or the field, either orally or in writing under applicable law, then
directed, discussed and given an explanation with applicable regulations, then summed.
Yogyakarta Police efforts in the framework of law enforcement crime is counterfeiting money,
more focus to work together with a bunch of extension of Bank Indonesia, improve the
investigation of the places that have a gap of circulation and trafficking of counterfeit money,
and include expert witnesses from Bank Indonesia to determine the authenticity of money .
Obstacles encountered in law enforcement efforts against criminal counterfeiting, among others,
inadequate number of personnel available compared with an area of Yogyakarta Police
jurisdiction are not comparable, especially when compared with the number of residents in the
city of Yogyakarta, the lack of personnel in Yogyakarta Police who are specifically can find out
directly to distinguish real money and counterfeit money, in Yogyakarta Police lack the tools to
distinguish between genuine and counterfeit money, budget activities and supporting facilities
are limited, and therefore contributes to the implementation of activities or programs to be
substandard, as well as criminal counterfeiting money is a crime that is organized, so that in case
the police difficulties in revealing the main perpetrators of the network.