Legal Protection for Children as Victims of Sexual Crime: Between Challenges and Expectations
- DOI
- 10.2991/icils-19.2019.12How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Children, sexual crimes, legal protection
- Abstract
Children are the budding, potential, and younger generation to succeed the ideals of the nation's effort to have strategic roles, special characteristics and traits that they must be protected from all forms of inhuman treatment, abuse and discrimination leading to violations of children's human rights. The fact is found in the field that there is the rising violence against children, one of which is sexual crime. The issuance of Law Number 35 of 2014 on Amendment to Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection, emphasized the serious demand of the State/government to protect children with the imposition of criminal sanctions and fines by including the minimum provisions for perpetrators of crimes against children, especially sexual crimes aimed at providing a deterrent effect on the offenders. This article presents the legal protection of children as victims of sexual crimes: between challenges and expectations. This paper indicates that in terms of regulation, the assurance of legal protection of children by the state have been carried out strictly, however, due to the influence of various factors, the field practice still encounter many challenges and is expected that it is necessary to increase support from various parties in the future of which goal in achieving child welfare can be materialized.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rasdi PY - 2019/11 DA - 2019/11 TI - Legal Protection for Children as Victims of Sexual Crime: Between Challenges and Expectations BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 68 EP - 70 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icils-19.2019.12 DO - 10.2991/icils-19.2019.12 ID - 2019/11 ER -