CHEMICAL CASTRATION AS PUNISHMENT FOR SEXUAL OFFENDER AGAINST CHILDREN (ADIGNIFIED JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE)

Soekorini, Noenik and Prasetya, Teguh and Yudianto, Otto CHEMICAL CASTRATION AS PUNISHMENT FOR SEXUAL OFFENDER AGAINST CHILDREN (ADIGNIFIED JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE). CHEMICAL CASTRATION AS PUNISHMENT FOR SEXUAL OFFENDER AGAINST CHILDREN (ADIGNIFIED JUSTICE PERSPECTIVE), 6 (11). ISSN 2320-5407

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Abstract

Efforts to combat sexual violence crimes are inevitably. They are aimat protecting the community to achieve public welfare. The existingcriminal law taking a penal means. At the same time there has beenother means, namely non-penal. Under the Dignified JusticeJurisprudence proposed by Professor Teguh Prasetyo, the philosophicalbasis for chemical castration sanctions is the issuance of Law Number17 Year 2016 concerning the Establishment of Government Regulationin lieu of Law Number 1 Year 2016 concerning the SecondAmendment to Law Number 23 Year 2002 concerning Child ProtectionLaw. In it, it has been considered that sexual violence towards children from year to year is increasing and threatening the strategic role ofchildren as the future generation of the Indonesian nation and state.Therefore there has been a need to aggravate criminal sanctions and provide action against perpetrators of sexual violence against children.To address the phenomenon of sexual violence against children theLaw aims at a deterrent effect on the perpetrators, and preventing the occurrence of sexual violence against children. The Government needsto take some more optimal and comprehensive steps by not onlyproviding criminal sanctions as well as implementing a form of prevention by giving actions in the form of chemical castration. Withthe principle of dignified justice, sanctions for chemical castration as anadditional sanction for temporary imprisonment are still applicable.They are included in the normative provisions applicable in theRepublic of Indonesia. Sanctions of chemical castration however mustpay attention to the dignity of a better human being based on Pancasila. In the hope of the sexual offender is enable to return and accepted bythe community.

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