PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM ANAK TERLANTAR ATAS HAK ANAK MENDAPATKAN JAMINAN KESEHATAN

Abstract

Street children is a child who spends most of his time to make money or wandering in the streets or other public places. Article 28 B of the 1945 Law states that the state guarantees every child to live, grow and develop and is entitled to protection from violence and discrimination. Children also have the right to obtain proper health services according to their physical and mental spiritual needs. This research uses a juridical-empirical legal approach (socio-legal research). Adequate child health services are guaranteed in article 8 of the Child Protection Act and Article 62 of Law number 39 of 1999 concerning Human Rights, both for children who have families and abandoned children without families. This study discusses how abandoned children who do not have an identity self and it is unknown who the family can get legal guarantees in terms of health insurance because in Article 34 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Law that the poor and neglected children are looked after by the state.