The Supreme of the Child Criminal Jurisdiction System in Protecting Children's Rights that Deals with the Law

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine and analyze the supremacy of the juvenile criminal justice system in protecting the rights of children in conflict with the law. In this paper, the author uses a normative juridical method. In the conclusion of the discussion that in conducting an investigation of a child as a criminal, an investigator must understand the Child Criminal Procedure Law as stipulated in Act No. 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Criminal Justice System, the arrest of a child is carried out for the purpose of investigation for a maximum of 24 (twenty four) hours, a child who is arrested must be placed in a special service room for children, in the event that a special service room for children does not yet exist in the area concerned, children are deposited in LPAS. The examination process before the court also requires the defendant to be detained in order to expedite the examination process, the judge can make a detention for a maximum period of 10 (ten) days, the period at the request of the judge can be extended by making an application to the head of the district court for a maximum of 15 (fifteen) days, if the 15 (fifteen) days period has ended and the Judge has not rendered a decision, then the child must be expelled by law (Article 35 of the Juvenile Criminal Justice System Act).