PENERAPAN KEADILAN RESTORATIF SEBAGAI ALTERNATIF PENYELESAIAN PADA TINDAK PIDANA PENGANIAYAAN YANG DILAKUKAN OLEH ANAK STUDY KASUS PADA POLRES WONOGIRI

This study aims to analyze the urgency of restorative justice in the crime of maltreatment committed by children and to analyze the arrangements for implementing restorative justice as an alternative settlement for criminal acts of abuse committed by children at the Wonogiri Police Station.This research is empirical with data collection techniques carried out by library research, namely from laws, books, official documents, publications and research results and by field research, namely through interviews and questionnaires to a number of respondents.The results of this study are: 1) The large number of crimes of maltreatment is in accordance with the data originating from the Wonogiri Police and the Central Bureau of Statistics, the positive response of the public who welcomes the approach of restorative justice as a form of solving criminal acts of maltreatment committed by children and the bad image of former In the eyes of society, convicts of criminal acts of abuse committed by children can affect the continuation of the future of perpetrators of criminal acts, it is felt that it is enough to prove that the application of restorative justice is an urgency to make a statutory rule. 2) In the current arrangements for the implementation of restorative justice it is only based on the Chief of Police Circular which has no legal force and is not binding as a whole but only binds to the agency which in this case is the National Police itself so that its application is still not optimal in terms of rules and implementation It is hoped that the arrangements for the application of restorative justice in the future as stipulated in the RKUHP will be immediately enforced so that the application of restorative justice has permanent legal force and is binding on all parties.Key word : Restorative Justice, Urgency, Criminal Acts of Abuse committed by children.