THE CIVIL RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN IN THE POLICE INVESTIGATION OF INDONESIA

Children are human beings who must be protected their civil rights. In the context of humanity, children are the future of a nation's civilization. In Indonesia, a child who is under police investigation, because it is accused of a crime, it must also be protected its civil rights as part of upholding human rights. The children protection law in Indonesia, namely the Act of Number 35 of 2014 on Children Protection, has become the main legal basis in Indonesia regarding the protection of civil rights for children. A child according to this law must not neglect its civil rights, even though the child is undergoing a police investigation process for being involved in a crime. This article, tries to do an analysis of that with the normative legal approach method.