LEGAL PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN AS VICTIMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN LAMPUNG PROVINCE

Abstract

This research journal is entitled: "Legal Protection for Children as Victims of Sexual Violence in Lampung Province." The formulation of the problem raised in this research journal is how the form of legal protection for child victims of sexual violence in Lampung province and the factors that influence the fulfillment of such legal protection. This research is an Empirical Juridical research. Using primary data in the form of interviews and secondary data in the form of primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, and tertiary legal materials. The results of this study are the form of legal protection for child victims of sexual violence is through repressive legal protection, one of the efforts to provide legal protection for child victims of sexual violence by applying criminal provisions as regulated in the laws and regulations in Indonesian positive law, as in Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning amendments to Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning child protection. The obstacles faced include internal obstacles, including those within the child and the victim's family, who appear to be covering up the incident and circumstances that occurred to the victim. External obstacles faced include the lack of a safe house from the government and witnesses who can provide information at the time of the incident. This hinders the process of enforcing the law against the crime of sexual violence against children.