Developing Human Rights-Based Legal Protection Model on Victims of Child Trafficking in Indonesia

Abstract

Human traficking is a crime resulted from social disorganization and social crimes, such as industrialization, social change and modernization. Social change causes women and children to choose to leave their homes and find livelihoods far from their regions and even abroad, with minimal skills and education. This phenomenon creates human, especially child trafficking. The approach method used is a normative juridical approach or a legal approach. The legal protection for children has ben arranged in Indonesian laws and regulations, however the implementation is not optimal. The appropriate victim protection models to develop are: a). placing child in the family and social care institutions, or environments that provide security and monitor child's activities. b). granting restitution or compensation for the benefit of the child. c). recovery of child’s physical and psychological conditions by psychiatric assistance and government officials supervision, thus needing a practical and sustainable monitoring system. d). formulating regional regulation.