Perlindungan Hukum Terhadap Anak Sebagai Pelaku Penyalahgunaan Narkotika Di Pengadilan Negeri Koto Baru

In today's modern era, child delinquency tends to increase in the process of development because the curiosity of children is not limited to positive things or negative things, such as the many cases of criminal acts committed by children, one of which is narcotics abuse. Narcotics abusers are people who use narcotics without rights and against the law. Based on the SPPA Law, even though a child commits a crime, the child must receive legal protection. Based on a case that occurred at the Koto Baru District Court regarding narcotics abuse committed by a 16 (sixteen) year old child in Jorong Lubuk Pulai Nagari Sirukam, Payung Sekaki District, Solok Regency. Children as perpetrators of crime, need to get legal protection, including against children as perpetrators of narcotics abuse. The form of legal protection given to narcotics abusers is given during the trial process and in the judge's decision which decides the defendant to be returned to his parents and gets a rehabilitation program, both medical rehabilitation and social rehabilitation.