LEGAL ASPECTS OF PROTECTING CHILDREN VICTIMS OF CYBERBULLYING IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to find out the legal aspects of child protection as a result of cyberbullying, which is intimidation from cyberspace or from oppression of cyberspace and all forms of violence experienced or felt by children or adolescents and also carried out by friends of the same age as them in the world virtual. This action can also be considered as an act that is included in committing violence against children that is degrading to children, and this is a form of violation of children's human rights, the actions they take on social media are actions that do not go directly to the physical, but use other technologies. Therefore, there is a separate regulation in these provisions in addition to the enforcement of regulations on child protection and child welfare that provide protection to children from the point of view of age and since the child is in the womb, besides this bullying is violence in the form of psychic and its impact can cause children become mentally disturbed, and depressed and traumatized, and because children are the next generation of the nation, it is necessary to give special protection to children as victims of criminal acts of bullying.