Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Anak Korban Tindak Pidana Pedofilia Dalam Perspektif Viktimologi

Abstract

Children are the budding, potential, and future generations of the ideals of the Indonesian nation, having a strategic role in ensuring the existence of the nation and the State in the future. The world of children who should be colored by playing, learning, and developing their interests and talents for the future, their reality is colored by dark and sad data. Children continue to experience violence and even criminal acts, one of which is pedophilia. Legal protection for children who are victims of pedophileia according to the perspective of victimization, namely through assistance programs and services that can be in the form of providing legal assistance, providing medical services as an effort to provide treatment for physical injuries suffered by children, providing services for healing psychological trauma suffered by children, and provide information regarding the development of the settlement of criminal cases faced by children. Protection of victims in the criminal justice process is in fact inseparable from the protection of victims according to the provisions of positive Indonesian law in force. Regulations on Pedophilia in Indonesia, namely in the Criminal Code Article 289, Article 290, Article 292 of the Criminal Code, Article 81 paragraphs (1) and (2), Article 82 of Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning Protection child. Article 15 and Article 82 paragraph (1) of Law Number 35 Year 2014 Regarding Amendment to Law Number 23 Year 2002 Concerning Child Protection.