Legal Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 Year 2014 on Child Protection)

Abstract

As one form of Tri Dharma Higher Education is the devotion to the masarakat, some lecturers of the Faculty of Law Hasanuddin University led by a team consisting of Wiwie Heryani, A. Tenri Famauri, and Ratnawati, held legal counseling at SMA Negeri 21 Makassar (Monday, October 1, 2017), with the topic "Legal Protection Against Children from Sexual Crimes". This counseling is an effort to implement Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 35 Year 2014 on Child Protection. According to the extension team from the Faculty of Law Hasanuddin University, sexual crimes is one form of crime that increasingly widespread both the motive, nature, form, intensity, and ways causing unrest in the community. The recent rise of sex crimes is common in children, whether physical, psychological, sexual or neglectful, often of children and children without adequate legal and human rights protections so that children often become victims. Sexual crimes committed against children will certainly have an impact on the development of psychological and other development of the child. Psychological impact on the child will give birth to a prolonged trauma which can then give birth to unhealthy attitudes, such as minder, excessive fear that can certainly interfere with the development of the child's psyche. By the Indonesian government through agencies or agencies and law enforcement officers are expected to be able to make preventive and repressive efforts in the form of real law enforcement in accordance with the rules of law applicable so that the order of life of society and nation safe and orderly can be achieved, the core of legal counseling from this Faculty of Law Hasanuddin University Lecturer.

Keywords: Legal Protection, Children, Sexual Offenses