A Life Protection Guarantees and Control of Street Children under Law No. 35/2014 on Child Protection
Universitas Airlangga Surabaya
Universitas Airlangga Surabaya
UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56943/jlte.v5i4.231Street children in Indonesian cities face violence, exploitation and exclusion from care, although Law No. 35/2014 on Child Protection assigns the state, the community and the family a shared duty to protect them. Research has examined risk, health and participation mainly outside Indonesian statutory analysis, and few studies read the Law as one protective regime for street children. The study assessed how Law No. 35/2014 guarantees the protection of the life of street children and regulates their control, and it identified where implementation departs from the norm. Normative-juridical research with a descriptive-analytical orientation was used, supported by statute, conceptual and socio-legal approaches. Library research covered primary legal materials, including the 1945 Constitution, Law No. 35/2014, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and General Comment No. 21, and Scopus-indexed articles published between 2020 and 2024. The materials were interpreted grammatically and systematically, compared with implementation patterns reported in the literature, and checked through triangulation. The findings showed that the harms suffered by street children correspond to the special protection categories of the Law, that control becomes protective only when joined to schooling, economic support, shelter and care, and that guarantees of health care and education are weakest where they depend on a caregiver. The shortfall lies in delivery and coordination rather than in missing norms. A local lead institution and operational use of Articles 59A, 66 and 72 are recommended.
Keywords: Child Protection Indonesia Legal Implementation Special Protection Street Children
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