SEXUAL SLAVERY OF CHILDREN AS A WAR CRIME IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL PERSPECTIVE

Child is a creature from God Almighty who needs to be protected by self-esteem and his dignity and is guaranteed for the right of his life to grow and develop according to his natural fate. Any form of treatment that interferes and impairs the fundamental rights in various forms of unauthorized utilization and exploitation must be discontinued without exception.This is a normative juridical research. The method of the research is statute approaches, that is analyzing sexual slavery in children as war crime, because many cases of completion can be done through international criminal court.The results showed that child is vulnerable to any crime of its form at his ag, and one of the war crimes is child sexual slavery, which are not a few children became victims. In international criminal law is known the term of individual responsibility, which means that the perpetrators of criminals either commander or soldier can be tried in the International Criminal Court established by Rome Statuteof 1998.