COMPARISON OF JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN INDONESIA AND SOUTH KOREA

Abstract

Child growth is a period when children have a high level of curiosity, which sometimes leads them to commit crimes. According to the Indonesian Supreme Court Annual Report 2020, juvenile criminal cases reached 6,146. Meanwhile, as many as 38,590 cases of juvenile crimes were reported in the South Korean Judicial Yearbook 2020. There is a juvenile justice system to resolve juvenile criminal cases. This judicial system aims to educate and protect the rights of Children in Conflict with the Law for their future. The juvenile justice system in Indonesia is regulated in Law Number 11 of 2012 concerning the Juvenile Criminal Justice System (UU SPPA), while there is the Juvenile Act of 2015 that regulated juvenile cases in South Korea. A comparison of the juvenile justice system in the two countries in fostering and protecting juveniles is an interesting matter to discuss. This article includes statistics on juvenile cases, the juvenile justice system, types of punishment, and the laws that apply in both countries. By using normative legal research methods, the result of this article is to give a comparison of how Indonesia and South Korea solve juvenile cases based on their juvenile justice systems and regulations.