The Urgency of Formulating New Government Regulation on the Mental Rehabilitation of Child Victims of Sexual Crimes After the Adaption to the New-Normal

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10.2991/assehr.k.211112.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

child victims; sexual crimes; legislation; mental rehabilitation; COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19 came with a lot of changes to the order of human life; what was once common became prohibited. These changes brought many impacts, one of which towards children as the most vulnerable of the population in many aspects, including the rise of violence and abuse towards children during the pandemic. This increase is not accompanied by prioritizing the mental rehabilitation of child victims. Government Regulation Number 40 of 2011 concerning the Guidance, Assistance, and Recovery of Child Victims or Perpetrators of Pornography considerably no longer provides the strongest solution for child victims of sexual violence and abuse to obtain mental rehabilitation. This research aims to analyze the existing regulations and current practice of handling child victims of sexual crimes as well as to analyze and suggest possible alternative approaches specifically in the mental rehabilitation of child victims correlating to the COVID-19 new normal order. This research will analyze the extent of implementation of the current legislation as well as focusing on the necessity for stronger regulation for mental rehabilitation. The research uses a normative juridical method; the legal materials used consist of primary legal materials in the form of laws and derivative regulations, secondary legal materials in the form of books and journals, and tertiary legal materials. The data used in this research is secondary data. The result shows that current regulations and practice of mental rehabilitation for child victims of sexual violence and abuse, especially exacerbated by the drastic changes that came with COVID-19, are not having the desired effect and that stronger regulations and law enforcement are urgently necessary with the focus on mental rehabilitation especially for children in the context of a new adaptation era.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Laurenzia Luna
AU  - Serlly Waileruny
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/23
TI  - The Urgency of Formulating New Government Regulation on the Mental Rehabilitation of Child Victims of Sexual Crimes After the Adaption to the New-Normal
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Law and Human Rights 2021 (ICLHR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 532
EP  - 540
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211112.069
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211112.069
ID  - Luna2021
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