kitab undang-undang hukum pidana
Indonesian
Etymology
Compound of kitab undang-undang (“lawbook, code”, literally “lawbook”) + hukum pidana (“criminal law”, literally “penal law”), calque of Dutch wetboek van strafrecht (“criminal code”, literally “lawbook of criminal law”).
Noun
kitab undang-undang hukum pidana (plural kitab-kitab undang-undang hukum pidana)
Alternative forms
- KUHP (initialism)
Further reading
- “kitab undang-undang hukum pidana”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016