LEGAL PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN IN OBTAINING BIRTH CERTIFICATES

Abstract

Birth registration is the right of every citizen because a person is actually only recognized after his birth is registered but in reality many children have not been registered so do not have a birth certificate. Purpose of study, Reviewing and analyzing legal protection for children in obtaining a birth certificate base on The Principles of Children Protection and This study uses a normative approach, specifically the analytical descriptive approach. Main finding that Laws that exist on how birth certificates are obtained do not protect children due to one regulation with another existing regulation are discordant making the implementation to be inconsistentThis study is useful for children who live in the East, such as Papua because the coverage of birth certificate ownership is still low and is also useful for child proection law. Novelty of this study. How to obtain a birth certificate for Out-of-Marriage Children and children of unknown origin.