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The Draft for Criminal Law Book in Indonesia, some time ago reaped a polemic and controversy so that the implications of overflowing students held a demonstration in front of the Republic of Indonesia Parliament. The students rejected the New Criminal Code Draft. This paper tries to diagnose the polemic surrounding the New Criminal Code Draft. The approach of this paper is a philosophical approach regarding the legal values that become polemic that announce the New Criminal Code Draft. According to the author, the debate about the Criminal Code Draft should return to the vertex of the cultural values of the Indonesian nations law, which manifests in elements called criminal acts. The vertex of the values of legal culture is to return to the religious values of this nation, as stated in the basic principle of this country namely Pancasila, which in the first principle stipulates the Godhead of the Almighty. That is, the debate on the Draft of the Criminal Code should stop at a vertex when the so-called offense or the crime itself refers to the cultural values of the law that adopt this nations religiosity