Legal Protection of Children as Perpetrators of Criminal Acts through Diversion and Restorative Justice

Differences in the handling of child offenders have specifically been regulated in Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Criminal Justice System which not only regulates children as perpetrators but also children as victims and children as witnesses, or can be called children in conflict with the law, and in Article 1 number 1 it is stated that the Juvenile Criminal Justice System is the entire process of completing cases for children in conflict with the law from the investigation stage to the guidance stage after the child has served the sentence. 2 Then, the Law basically regulates the implementation of the criminal justice system for children which prioritizes the special rights of a child to stay away and avoid the judicial process so that there is no bad stigmatization of children, especially children as perpetrators of a criminal act so that the child can return to socialize as usual reasonably in the environment where he lives