The Legal Protection of Child As Witness and/or Victims of Human Trafficking In Investigation Process (Study Case in Unit Protection of Woman and Children in Batu Police Station)
Abstract: This
study describes or
illustrates well as
address issues of
legal protection of children as witnesses and/or of human trafficking in
the investigation process. Legal protection is a protection given to the
subject of the law in the form of
legal instruments both
preventive and repressive,
both written and
unwritten. Problems studied are
(1) Urgency legal
protection of children
as victims of trafficking crimes in the investigation
process, (2) The legal protection of children as victims of human trafficking
in the investigation. The research method used is empirical jurisdiction. Some
indicators of legal protection of children as witnesses of human trafficking victims, namely:
the role of
victims, Position witnesses
and victims, non-technical, and technical. Technical
indicators include several things, namely: The rooms that
used to investigated
witness and victims,
investigated procedures. Whereas, non-technical
indicators include: policy
and paradigm of
police itself which says
that legal protection
should be given
to children because
of the laws governing the protection of children as
victims and as perpetrators. The forms of legal
protection provided by
the Unit Protection
of Woman and
Child to the victim witness include: the anonymity of
witnesses and / or victims, rehabilitation of health, counseling, assistance
for witnesses and / or victims of the child, and a exclusive investigated room.
Author: OKTAFIANI HATMA SUWOTO
Journal Code: jphukumgg130027
