ABSTRAK
Suatu tindak pidana menuntut adanya pertanggungjawaban pidana dari pihak yangdianggap bersalah. Dalam penulisan ini, terdapat permasalahan utama yaknibagaimana pertanggungjawaban pidana nakhoda dalam kecelakaan kapal yangdipengaruhi oleh faktor alam dan/atau faktor teknis sebagai faktor di luarkelalaian nakhoda. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian yuridis normatif.Berdasarkan hasil analisis ini, faktor alam dan faktor teknis merupakan faktoryang berpengaruh besar terhadap tindakan nakhoda namun tidak selalu menjadialasan penghapusan pidana nakhoda.

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ABSTRACT
Every criminal act requires criminal liability from those who are guilty. In thiswriting, there is a major issue which is to determine a ship captain?s criminalliability in a shipwreck incident which is affected by external factors beside thecaptain?s negligence act, such as natural factors and/or technical factors. Thisstudy uses normative juridicial research. Based on the results of the analysis,natural factors and technical factors indeed greatly affect in every act of a captain? especially in the case of emergency ? however, those factors are not always bethe reason the accused not to be blamed for his or her conduct.