THE URGENCY OF LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE WOMAN AND CHILDREN EXPLOITATION IN THE NEW BROADCASR AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Budoyo, Sapto THE URGENCY OF LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE WOMAN AND CHILDREN EXPLOITATION IN THE NEW BROADCASR AND SOCIAL MEDIA. THE URGENCY OF LEGAL PROTECTION TO THE WOMAN AND CHILDREN EXPLOITATION IN THE NEW BROADCASR AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

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Abstract

Women and Children are being vulnerable groups with the discrimination and exploitation. The Development of technology and social media have an impact on the women and children matters in a public sphere. This is due to the increasing cases of women and children’s exploitation and discrimination such as sexual harassment through social media as well as women and children’s exploitation in a broadcast platform. Verbal violence against women and children being a crucial matters in a social media and broadcast platform, therefore legal protection is needed for woman and children against those actions. This research consist of two points there are the urgency of legal protection for woman and children in exploitation and discrimination in the broadcast and social media in Indonesia, this research also discuss related to the implementation of legal protection to the woman and children in exploitation and discrimination through broadcast and social media platform in Indonesia. This research using normative legal methods with analytical descriptive based on library research. The result of this research shows that the urgency of legal protection needed on woman and children’s exploitation and discrimination in broadcast and social media platform due to Indonesia has ratified The Convention on The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Woman (CEDAW) through Law Number7 of 1984 concerning on the ratification of the Convention on The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Woman. This regulation continued by Law Number 35 of 2014 on child protection, as well as Law Number 32 of 2002 concerning on broadcasting and Law Number19 of 2016 in connection with Law Number 11 of 2008 on the information and electronic transaction. The implementation of legal protection on the woman and children’s exploitation and discrimination in Indonesia’s social media and broadcast platform has not been optimal. Those happens due to the several factors such as the failure of the legal content’s implementation by the stakeholders. This problem due to the gap between enforcement officers, and society’s role with the prevention and handling children and women’s exploitation and discrimination cases in social media and broadcast platform. Therefore, those factors lead several cases such as sexual harassment through verbal violence and bullying to the woman and children. Moreover, strengthening the legal protection, legal enforcement and also the implementation are needed related to the broadcast and social media platform

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