Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Anak yang Menjadi Korban Tindak Pidana Penganiayaan Dalam Rumah Tangga di Wilayah Hukum Kepolisian Resor Kota Pekanbaru Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 23 Tahun 2004 tentang Penghapusan Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga

Abstract

Children are the next generation and successors to the development struggle as well as the
mandate and the gift of God Almighty, which we must always guard because in them the dignity, dignity and
rights as human beings must be upheld. Legal protection for children is an effort and activity of all levels of
society in various positions and roles, who realize the importance of children for the nation and the nation
in the future. If they are mature in their physical and mental and social growth, then they will replace the
previous generation.
This research can be classified in the type of sociological legal research (empirical), which is
meant by sociological legal research (empirical) that is as a study that looks directly at the effect of the
enactment of positive law on people's lives, because in this study the authors directly conduct research on
location or place researched to provide a complete and clear description of the problem under study.
Whereas viewed from the nature of the research reneline is descriptive, that is research that provides a clear
and also detailed description of the problems examined by the author, namely Legal Protection Against
Children Who Become Victims of Torture in the Household in Pekanbaru Police Law Based on the Law
Number 23 of 2004 concerning the Elimination of Domestic Violence.
From the results of the research the authors concluded, First, Protection of children in the Legal
Area of the Pekanbaru City Police Resort is still not in line with expectations, because there are still many
children who get violence and discrimination and violated children's rights while the protection that the
government should not provide well realized, secondly, the factors that cause obstruction of legal protection
for children, are almost the same as law enforcement factors, which include the law, that in Law No. 23 of
2004 not discussed in detail about how supervision of parents who commits a criminal act of abuse against
a child. law enforcers, that they did not regard the case as a criminal case, there was no further process
regarding the perpetrators who escaped, the absence of a post mortem so there was a lack of evidence to
process, and a lack of reports.
Keywords: Legal Protection - Against Children - Victims of Torture in the Household.