Assessment of Child Violence: Protection Policies and the Impact of Violence on Children

Abstract

Children are children whose position is a valuable treasure for their families, loved, and protected. However, in their development, children also often experience violent behavior, which is not uncommon for the perpetrators to be those closest to the child. In Indonesia, the crisis of child protection is shown by the increasing number of cases child abuse starting in 2019 until now. Various efforts to protect children are carried out globally through various international conventions and nationally with various laws ranging from the Civil Code to local government regulations. The rights and protection of children in Indonesia does not only contain formal law for children aged 0-18 but starts from the womb. However, these efforts have not been able to provide solutions and reduce cases that have occurred so far. This study seeks to describe how the policy on violence against children is and how it impacts on victims by using qualitative methods and literature review as data sources. The results of this study describe various policies that contain the rights and protection of children and the impact of violence on children.

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