PENGARUH MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP TINDAK PIDANA CABUL YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH ANAK DI KOTA PADANG

Abstract

Sexual violence against children by children set on Article 76D and 76E of Law No. 35 of 2014 Amending Law on Child Protection (No. 23/2002). The development of social media has positive and negative effects. The negative effects change culture, morality, and society value in general and increase number of crime by children specially. From the research results obtain several conclusions: First, the effects of social media on sexual violence against children by children in Padang City is about 82 percent. Through social media, children can access pornography easily by facebook, whatsapp, twitter, instagram and etc. Some cases happen after children watching video by link in the social media. Second, Padang Police Resort’s effort to solve sexual violence against children by children cases caused by social media through three steps: preemptive, preventive and repressive. The preemptive step is the first step by police to prevent a crime. The preventive step is special activities to eradicate the factors of violation by children, such as pornography access. The last, the repressive step handling by Crime Investigation Unit to investigate until deliver the case sheaf to prosecutor.

Keywords

• Effect, Social Media, Sexual Violence Against Children, Children