The Urgency of Establishing Child Protection Regulations from Online Games

Abstract

Online games that are increasingly accessible to every age group, especially children, still seem to contain many inappropriate actions such as violence, pornography, gambling, and the like, which hurt the quality of the nation's future generations. Moreover, there have been many criminal cases of children and adolescents influenced by online games containing violence, pornography, gambling, and the like. The Indonesian Child Protection Commission responded to this problem by urging the government to issue regulations regarding child protection immediately. However, there have been several regulations that have similar substance, so this paper examines to provide solutions to the urgency of establishing child protection regulations using two analytical knives in the form of responsive legal theory and Sadd Al-Dzari'ah which results in a discussion from both perspectives both found a good purpose to protect children from online games containing violence, pornography, gambling and the like so it is very important and necessary to immediately establish child protection regulations from online games. This research is specialized in the form of solutions that are made to overcome and deal with the impact of online games that contain violence and the like.