PELAKSANAAN PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK SEBAGAI KORBAN TINDAK PIDANA EKSPLOITASI EKONOMI DI KOTA PEKANBARU

Abstract

Economic poverty has created a lot of child labor, where the parents order
their children to help the family's economy and those who deliberately took
advantage of them for personal gain due to economic factors, which resulted in
the loss of children's rights. In essence, a child cannot protect themselves from
various kinds of actions that cause harm, such as mental, physical, and social
losses in various fields of life and livelihood. Children must be assisted by others
to protect themselves, given the situation and condition. Therefore, the
implementation of child protection is an obligation and responsibility of the State,
Government, Regional Government, Community, Family, and Parents or
Guardians.
This type of research is sociological legal research, where the author
directly researches the location under study to provide a complete and clear
picture of the problem being studied, this research was conducted on the streets of
Pekanbaru, Pekanbaru Resort Police, and Pekanbaru Social Service. The
population and sample are all parties related to the problems studied in this
study, the data sources used are primary data, secondary data, and tertiary data,
data collection techniques in this study are observation, interviews, and literature
study.
There are several results of the study that can be concluded. First, the
rights of children as victims have not been truly fulfilled, aside from that the
implementation of legal protection for children as victims of economic
exploitation crimes in Pekanbaru regulated in the Child Protection Act has not
been optimal. Second, the obstacles in the implementation of legal protection are
caused by the lack of cooperation between child care institutions, the insensitivity
of the community, the lack of legal awareness, and economic factors.
Keywords: Legal Protection, Children, Economic Exploitation Crime