PENDEKATAN RESTORATIF DALAM PENJATUHAN SANKSI TINDAKAN BAGI ANAK YANG BERKONFLIK DENGAN HUKUM PADA PENGADILAN NEGERI BAU-BAU

The study aims to analyze and gain an understanding of the restorativeapproach adopted to act 11 in 2012 on the criminal justice system of children inconflict with the law in order to provide legal protection for children in conflictwith that law. The study is an empirical law study, a law implementation innational law, involving restoration approaches in enforcing sanctions against thelaw to keep children away from prison crimes and a negative stigma on society.The data used in this study are primary and secondary data. Primary data isobtained by conducting interviews with judges, prosecutors, and public advisers.Secondary data are obtained through a library study of legislation that regulateschildren who are in conflict with the law.Research shows that the value of restorative justice is accommodating inthe criminal justice system of children. Legal consideration by the judge inrendering action on the child's penal case, the age of the child, the exclusion of allelements of the indictment, of the facts in the trial, the reduced weight of criminalcrimes committed by the child, the repetition of the crime, and the purpose andbenefits of the very sentencing of the criminal child, and the application ofrestorative justice in the state of anaKeyword: a child in conflict with law, a restorative approach, penalty of action