Perlindungan Hukum terhadap Anak sebagai Korban Kejahatan Pelecehan Seksual dalam Persfektif Viktimologi (Studi Kasus di Kab. Labuhanbatu Utara)

Abstract

Children are generations of a nation, who needs protection to gorw well from their families, neightborhood, playing environment, and learning environment. Therefore, the research problems are how LabuhanBatu Utara Regency protect a child victim of sexual abuse in the region. The objective of this research is to observe the role of LabuhanBatu Utara Regency through Satkeholder concerning child protection such as KPAID (Regional unit of Indonesian Commission on Child Protection), and DPPPA (Women Empowerment and Child Protection Agency) of LabuhanBatu Utara regency. This is a normative and empirical research. A normative research refers to the theories, norms and regulations related to the role and legal protection for child victim of sexual crime. An empirical research refers to practices in the field to observe and collect data directly on the role of LabuhanBatu Utara Regency in providing protection for child victim of sexual abuse. The role of Government in LabuhanBatu Utara Regency in provising legal protection for child victim of sexual crime through eh establishment of KPAID and DPPPA of LabuhanBatu Utara Regency is regulated in the Regional Government Regulations Number 2/2013 on Implementation of Child Protetion. The role is indicated from the number of complaints on sexual crime to children and the working progress of LabuhanBatu Utara Regency in providing legal protection for the children, legally or specifically from the settlement of legal process by continuously improving the children’s mental state. The child sexual abuses complained to DPPPA and KPAID of LabuhanBatu Utara are settled by Diverse and report process at the Police office of LabuhanBatu Utara. However, when Diverse and process does not produce any consensus, the complaints will be proceeded to LabuhanBatu Utara Regency through DPPPA and KPAID, in which both institutions do not know how the legal process progresses, whether it is filed to the court which is Inckracht (has permanent legal force) or it is halted at the Police office. This has to become the main focus of LabuhanBatu Utara Regency. The government needs to keep being updated for imformation related to the child sexual crime, particulary sexual abuse, so that the child victim gains legal certainty and the government can provide aids, service and good companionship beginning from the submission of complaints until the completion of the legal process in order to provide security to the child and to maintain the child’s psychological state to be free from stress, which can become new problems in the child’future mental state and growth.