Harmonization of Law to the Protection of Children’s Right Caused by Divorce in Indonesia

摘要

Law development can be built from awareness as part of international society. Particularly, those relating to basic rights as in children’s right protection that applied universally. This is unavoidable that Indonesia has a strong commitment to the legal protection of children’s right. by ratifying The Convention of the Right of The Child according to the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Number 10 of 2012 about the Child Convention. For that reason, Indonesia should do harmonization to the relating laws of children’s rights protection, especially to the children’s right caused by divorce of their parents. However, harmonization or unification to international law ideally should pay attention to the values of justice that grow and develop as the nation values, or ‘volkgeist’ of Indonesia people that sourced from Pancasila.