STATUS HUKUM PENGANGKATAN ANAK TANPA PUTUSAN PENGADILAN DI KOTA TANGERANG BERDASARKAN PERATURAN PEMERINTAH NOMOR 54 TAHUN 2007 TENTANG PELAKSANAAN PENGANGKATAN ANAK

Abstract

Children are valuable assets whose rights must be protected. Adopted children are entitled to legal status, and this is evidenced by the determination of the court that legally states that the adoption of the child has occurred and is valid in the eyes of the law, but in reality only a few are legally recorded. The purpose of this research is firstly to find out and analyze the legal status of child adoption without a court decision, second to find out and analyze the role and authority of the Tangerang City Government, and third to find out and analyze the constraints of the Tangerang City Government as well as the District Court and the Tangerang City Religious Court in the process of child adoption in Tangerang City. The method used is empirical juridical with an analytical descriptive approach. The data source used is the primary data source, namely by conducting interviews, and the data collection technique used is to prioritize field studies followed by literature studies and qualitative analysis. The results of this study are, first, the legal status of child adoption without a court decision is invalid and is considered a violation of the law; affect the distribution of inheritance; as well as population status, the two duties of each Regional Apparatus Organization (OPD) and related institutions in the Tangerang City Government include the Social Service as the coordinator and supervisor of child adoption, the District Court as a related institution that gives decisions, the Religious Court as a related institution that gives decisions in the case of Muslim children, and the Disdukcapil which is in charge of providing a marginal record deed and Child Identity Card (KIA),  and the three obstacles of OPD and related institutions in the Tangerang City Government include the Social Service has limited regional budgets and limited social workers, the District Court whose applicants are not orderly in submitting applications, religious courts whose applicants lack files and lack of witnesses in the trial, and Disdukcapil still has a lot of data manipulated

Keywords: Legal Protection, Crime, Economic Exploitation