LAW ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS CRIMINAL ACTION ABORTION IN INDONESIA

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The practice of illegal abortion is still rampant despite criminal threats against the perpetrators Illegal abortion has been regulated in Law Number 36 of 2009 concerning Health and the Criminal Code. This article means analyze the regulation of the crime of abortion and law enforcement problems abortion crime. The threat of illegal abortion is regulated in Article 194 of the Health Law and Articles 299, 346-349 of the Criminal Code. Illegal abortion law enforcement problems namely the overlapping of illegal abortion arrangements, law enforcement does not understand illegal abortion provisions, no safe abortion services available, economic conditions society, and culture of premarital sex and free sex. In this case, Commission III The DPR RI needs to regulate the exception to the abortion ban in the amendment to the Criminal Code and ask the Police to take action against proven perpetrators perform illegal abortions. In addition, Commission IX of the DPR RI needs to ask the Ministry of Health conducts supervision of health facilities indicated to carry out illegal abortion, providing safe abortion and post-abortion health services, and anticipatory steps to prevent the practice of illegal abortion.

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