THE FORMULATION POLICY ON CHILD PROTECTION AS VICTIM OF PAEDOPHILIA

Children are valuable assets for the future of nation and state whose rights must be protected. This is because the advancement of the state is in the hand of children. The state protection for children covers various aspects of life. They are economic aspect, social aspect, cultural, political, defense and security as well as legal aspect. The legal protection on children has always been a serious attention of various countries in the world. Some international conventions are made to maximize and realize the legal protection on children, such as the Geneve Declaration on the Rights of the Childs 1924 which is adopted into the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948. There is also the Declaration of the Right on the Childs. Furthermore, the international instruments. This includes protection from vice crimes, especially paedophilia. The criminal policy to protect the childs from vice crimes, including paedophilia is implemented in the Indonesian Criminal Code (KUHP) and it is specifically stipulated in the article 77 ? 90 of the Law Number 23 Year 2002 on Child Protection. According to the result of research and discussion, it is found that the formulation policy of Indonesian criminal law on paedophilia before the promulgation of the Law Number 4 Year 1979 on Children Welfare was merely based on the article 287, article 290, article 292, article 293 and article 294 of the Indonesian Criminal Code..