Abstrak : Implementasi diversi bertujuan menghindari kriminalisasi anak dalam penyelesaian perkara di Pengadilan Liwa. Akan tetapi, faktanya jumlah penerapan diversi pada jenis tindak pidana pencurian oleh anak dalam kurun waktu lima tahun terakhir hanya berjumlah 6 perkara dari 69 perkara. Penulis menyadari bahwa memang tidak semua perkara dapat berhasil melaksanakan diversi karena terdapat berbagai hambatan pada fakta di lapangan seperti minimnya pemahaman masyarakat dan pihak korban, serta hakim yang menangani perkara anak sampai saat ini terdapat perbedaan pandangan dalam upaya diversi anak. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis empiris, yaitu melakukan pendekatan secara langsung ke Pengadilan Negeri liwa dalam memperoleh data-data penyelesaian upaya diversi terhadap kasus anak sebagai pelaku tindak pidana pencurian di Pengadilan Negeri Liwa. Kemudian penulis juga menerapkan pendekatan analisis deskriptif untuk mengelola data kualitatif beserta metode deduktif dalam menyimpulkan permasalahan. Diharapkan penelitian ini dapat memberikan pemecahan atas persoalan diversi yang terjadi, dan meningkatkan jumlah proses diversi di masa mendatang.

This article examines and analyzes law enforcement in criminal acts committed by children. Law enforcement has always been preoccupied with general and conventional crimes committed by adults. In fact, along with the development of society and technology, several criminal cases have been committed by children. Considering that children need protection to grow and develop optimally, children who commit crimes must be given special treatment in terms of procedural law, criminal threats, and fulfillment of childrens rights, which are different from adults. This research is normative and empirical juridical research with a socio-legal approach. Primary data collection was carried out by interviewing sources determined through the snowball technique, while secondary data collection was carried out by library research. The collected data is then processed through the stages of checking, tagging, compiling, and systematizing. The data that has been processed is then analyzed interactively, which consists of description activities and data reflection.Challenges to law enforcement against perpetrators of criminal acts in Indonesia include the high tendency to detain and imprison children, violations of childrens right to a fair trial, and the demands of prosecutors and judges decisions are still dominated by prison sentences.The strategy for law enforcement against child perpetrators of mass crimes is based on a humanist legal approach through issuing sentencing guidelines and adopting the concept of children hearing system, optimizing the role of the police in implementing diversion, and optimizing community participation in child protection.

The presence of Law Number 11 of 2022 concerning Crimes Sexual Violence seeks to provide legal umbrella for existing problems, as well as manifestation Child Protection which has not been accommodated, especially in the criminal burden perpetrators of sexual crimes and the stages of efforts to recover victims due to sexual crimes they have experienced. It can be said that TPKS Law is synchronization of Child Protection Law by emphasizing sexual violence against children, through structuring stages of recovery given by children as well as in order to improve judicial process as special treatment needed by children. This research uses normative legal research methods through the approach of applicable laws and regulations and literature studies. The statutory regulation approach originates from primary data in form Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Child Protection and Law Number 11 of 2022 concerning Sexual Crime Crimes and literature studies. The results this study will show that presence of TPKS Law has had a positive impact and new legal protection efforts for vulnerable people, especially children as victims sexual crimes.