Money is used as a tool or as a means of payment transactions in the daily life have many forged or imitated resembles real currency and widely circulated in the community. In law in Indonesia forgery against something is a form of crime have been regulated in the statute books of criminal law (Criminal Code). Objects criminal acts are always closely connected with a common interest (rechtsbelang) to be protected by the formation of a criminal offense is concerned the principal issue in currency counterfeiting crimes can be solved judicially against problems arising with respect to positive law. Efforts to address the crime of counterfeiting currency is essentially a part of criminal law enforcement efforts. Unfortunately, law enforcement on cases of counterfeiting money is going is still considered good enough. This can be evidenced by the low sanctions imposed by a court that does not provide a deterrent effect for counterfeiting money. Settings currency counterfeiting crimes stipulated in Article 244-Article 252 of the Criminal Code. Besides that, the currency of crime in the Criminal Code is still limited. Criminal Code can not reach crimes other currencies are growing rapidly with technological developments. Criminal offense of counterfeiting of currency is universal and can be categorized as a criminal offense specifically as it relates to issues of stability and security of the country, resulting in the criminal punishment of the perpetrators of acts of counterfeiting of currency can be weighed again. Unfortunately the laws on currencies do not provide the same deterrent effect as in the Criminal Code because there is a reduction of criminal threats that originally stipulated in the Criminal Code is 15 years, but after exiting the Currency Act, the criminal threat is 10 years. Indeed, the Currency Act there is an additional criminal charge of a maximum fine of Rp 10,000,000,000 (ten billion), but according to the author's additional criminal fines do not have a deterrent effect which is equivalent to a reduction in the principal criminal imprisonment of 5 years.