The Urgency of Legal Protection by Child Protection Institutions for Children as Workers

Abstract

This research is legal research that examines the urgency of legal protection by child protection institutions for children as workers. The objectives of this research include: 1) to evaluate the implementation of the position and authority of the Bima City LPA in handling cases of children as workers in Bima City; 2) to evaluate the handling of legal protection by LPA Bima in cases of children as workers in Bima City. The research method used is a normative-empirical type of legal research, namely a type of normative legal research that is supported and equipped with empirical data relating to the position and authority of the Bima City LPA in dealing with children as workers in Bima City. The research results found that cases of children as workers in Bima City are still widespread. Bima City LPA in its position and in its authority carries out child protection and fulfillment of children's rights as well as providing the widest possible services for children as workers to grow and develop optimally both physically, mentally and socially and have noble morals to realize the welfare of children as workers by providing guarantees for the fulfillment of their rights and treatment without discrimination so as to create the welfare of children as fair and independent workers.