PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP ANAK SEBAGAI PELAKU PENYALAHGUNAAN NARKOTIKA MENURUT UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 35 TAHUN 2014 PERUBAHAN ATAS UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 23 TAHUN 2002 TENTANG PERLINDUNGAN ANAK DI WILAYAH HUKUM KEPOLISIAN RESOR KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN MERANTI DARI TAHUN 2017-2020

Abstract

Law enforcement is an effort made to make law, both in a narrow formal sense and a broad
material meaning, as a code of conduct in every legal action, both by the legal subjects concerned and
by law enforcement officials, children are a mandate as well as a gift of God. The One and Only One,
whom we must always protect because in itself the inherent dignity and rights as human beings must
be upheld to produce potential and successors to the ideals of the nation's struggle besides children as
part of the family, are children, successors, and The hope of the family is that in the early stages of
law enforcement, the police are the spearhead in handling the law against children who abuse
narcotics, in their role to enforce the criminal law it never stops directly in contact with people's lives.
This study is to determine law enforcement against children as perpetrators of Narcotics
Abuse according to Law Number 35 of 2014 Amendments to Law Number 23 of 2002 concerning
Child Protection in the Meranti Islands Resort Police Area. From 2017-2020, this type of research
can be classified in this type of sociological legal research (empirical), because in this study the
author directly conducts research at the location or place being studied in order to provide a complete
and clear picture of the problem being researched. narcotics, while the population and sample are
Assistant Investigators for the Sat Reskirm / Child Protection Investigators, the Meranti Islands
Narcotics Research Unit, the Chairperson of the Integrated Service Center for Child Empowerment,
Children as Criminal Actors, the data sources used are primary data and secondary data. Data
collection techniques in this study were interviews, questionnaires, and literature review.
The conclusions that can be obtained from the results of the research are First, the stages of
law enforcement can be said to run according to the flow, but there are still differences in perspective
between law enforcement agencies in the stages of the law enforcement process against children who
commit criminal acts of narcotics abuse., Law enforcement officers, especially the police, are still In
cases where the child is the perpetrator and the victim of the narcotics crime, there is no diversion
process. Given that criminal justice as a means of tackling narcotics abuse committed by children
often presents itself only as a legal “machine” which will only produce “procedural justice”.
Keywords : Law Enforcement – Narcotics - Diversion