Criminological Review of the Crime of Exploitation of Children as Workers

Article 88 of Law No. 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection explains that anyone who permits, places, carries out and orders to carry out or participates in economic exploitation of children, is punished with imprisonment for a maximum of 10 years and/or a maximum fine of Rp. 200,000.00,- However, in reality, in the Municipality of Banda Aceh, there are still children who are economically exploited. Therefore, the aim of this research is to analyze criminologically the implementation of legal protection for the criminal act of exploiting children as workers, the factors causing a child to be exploited as a worker, and efforts to overcome the occurrence of criminal acts of exploiting children as workers.