Article Sidebar

Download
PDF

Main Article Content

Abstract

Purpose: This study examines the normative adequacy and institutional connectedness of Indonesia’s legal framework for protecting child–parent relationships and reconstructs the available legal mechanisms into the Rapid Child Relationship Protection Model (RCRPM).


Research Design and Methodology: The study employs normative legal research using statutory, conceptual, limited comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches. Legal materials were purposively selected and verified against authoritative sources, then analyzed through legal mapping, gap identification, authority and limitation verification, and legal reconstruction.


Findings and Discussion: The findings show that Indonesian law already provides relevant building blocks, including children’s rights, parental responsibilities, contact rights, special protection, institutional coordination, and monitoring. However, these elements are not explicitly integrated into a continuous pathway for progressively developing relational risks. RCRPM reconstructs them into six stages: early identification, multidisciplinary assessment, immediate protective measures, relationship restoration, integrated institutional governance, and continuous monitoring. Its contribution lies in proposing relational neglect as an analytical and doctrinal lens and integrating existing functions without creating new substantive rights or institutional authority.


Implications: RCRPM provides a preventive, coordinated, and sustainable legal framework, while future research should assess its institutional feasibility, implementation, and effectiveness empirically.

Keywords

child–parent relationship; child protection; relational neglect; parental alienation; legal reconstruction; RCRPM

Article Details

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite
Sitanggang, F., Permatasari, R., & Kussoy, A. B. (2026). Reconstructing Child–Parent Relationship Protection in Indonesia: A Legal Framework for the Rapid Child Relationship Protection Model (RCRPM). Celebes Journal of Community Services, 5(2), 01–12. https://doi.org/10.37531/celeb.v5i2.4167
Download Citation
Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)
BibTeX

References

  1. Baude, A., Drapeau, S., Lachance, V., & Ivers, H. (2024). Trajectories of paternal contact after parental separation: A latent class growth analysis. Journal of Family Issues, 45(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X231151297
  2. Convention on the Rights of the Child. (1989). United Nations Treaty Series, 1577, 3.
  3. Daričiuc v. Romania. (2015). Application no. 16720/04, Judgment of 30 July 2015.
  4. European Court of Human Rights. (2015). R.S. v. Poland (Application no. 63777/09, Judgment of 21 July 2015).
  5. European Court of Human Rights. (2020). Suur v. Estonia (Application no. 41736/18, Judgment of 20 October 2020).
  6. European Court of Human Rights. (2026). Contact rights. ECHR Knowledge Sharing.
  7. General Comment No. 14 (2013) on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration (art. 3, para. 1). (2013). Committee on the Rights of the Child, CRC/C/GC/14.
  8. Greif, G. L., & Hegar, R. L. (1992). Impact on children of abduction by a parent: A review of the literature. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 62(4), 599–604.
  9. Keputusan Presiden Nomor 36 Tahun 1990 tentang Pengesahan Convention on the Rights of the Child (Konvensi tentang Hak-Hak Anak). (1990). https://peraturan.bpk.go.id/Details/63923/keppres-no-36-tahun-1990
  10. Larouche, K., et al. (2024). Post-separation parental conflict and father–child physical contact: A bidirectional study. Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1111/pere.12564
  11. Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 59 Tahun 2019 tentang Penyelenggaraan Koordinasi Perlindungan Anak. (2019). Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2019 Nomor 160, Tambahan Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Nomor 6382.
  12. Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 78 Tahun 2021 tentang Perlindungan Khusus bagi Anak. (2021). Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2021 Nomor 174, Tambahan Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Nomor 6704.
  13. Sullivan, M. J., Pruett, M. K., & Johnston, J. R. (2024). Parent-child contact problems: Family violence and parental alienating behaviors either/or, neither/nor, both/and, one in the same? Family Court Review, 62(1), 68–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12764
  14. Undang-Undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945. (1945).
  15. Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 1974 tentang Perkawinan, sebagaimana telah diubah dengan Undang-Undang Nomor 16 Tahun 2019 tentang Perubahan atas Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 1974 tentang Perkawinan. (1974).
  16. Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2014 tentang Perubahan atas Undang-Undang Nomor 23 Tahun 2002 tentang Perlindungan Anak. (2014). Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2014 Nomor 297, Tambahan Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Nomor 5606. https://peraturan.bpk.go.id/Details/38723/uu-no-35-tahun-2014
  17. United Nations Human Rights Council. (2023). Custody, violence against women and violence against children: Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem (A/HRC/53/36). United Nations.