Abstract

Sexual violence happened to children are often occurred, after the emergence of sexual cases in Jakarta International School (JIS). It began to arise attention to child victims of sexual violence. This paper aims to provide a review of the protection on child victims of sexual violence at this time. With the sociological juridical method, the primary data were obtained from direct interviews with law enforcement officers, while secondary data were obtained from literature references. The result shows that the legal protection does not pay attention on children as victim. The legal protection for children as victim sexual violence is expected to give punishment to the criminals in the form of payment of compensation to the victim whose amount is determined in the court, or fulfillment of the obligation of the Local custom or legal obligations that live in society or social and mental rehabilitation. If the convicted person tries to avoid giving the compensation, the convicted person is not entitled to a reduction in the criminal term and does not get conditional released.

Highlights

  • Since the New Order era, the problem of national stability including law enforcement has become a major component of the development

  • In Indonesia, basically every developed society and society in modern age has an interest in controlling crime and reducing crime rates through various alternative law enforcement2

  • Besides that this study aims to examine the weaknesses of legal protection for children in the crime of sexual violence against children today

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Introduction

Since the New Order era, the problem of national stability including law enforcement has become a major component of the development. The fine penalty stated in both the Child Protection Act does not need to be applied, because the penalty does not accommodate the interest of the child as the victim of sexual crime. Criminal penalty is only accommodate the interests of the state, namely as income to the state treasury which it does not provide any benefit for children as victims of sexual crimes. The fine penalty contained in the Child Protection Act does not need to be included in the Child Protection Act. Something that should be included in the Child Protection Act is something that can accommodate the interests of children as victims of sexual crimes, namely the imposition of restitution without any claim/demand from children as victims of sexual crimes. Empirical law studies are studies in the form of empirical studies to find out theories about the process of legal work in society

Legal Protection for Children as Victims of Sexual Violence
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