This research aims to determine the application of Indonesian positive law to the crime of taking foreign citizens hostage in Indonesia. This research is classified as normative legal research with a statutory approach and a case approach. Legal materials are collected through literature study, then analyzed prescriptively. The research results show that the criminal act of taking foreign citizens hostage, in this case a pilot from New Zealand in Indonesia, is an unlawful act. The legal regulations that were violated by the crime of taking hostages were Article 6 of Law Number 5 of 2018 concerning Amendments to Law Number 15 of 2003 concerning the Establishment of Government Regulations in Lieu of Law Number 1 of 2002 concerning the Eradication of Criminal Acts. Terrorism Becomes Law and Article 451 of Law Number 1 of 2023 concerning the Criminal Code.
