ISSN: 2320-5407 Int. J. Adv. Res. 5(3), 1773-1783 1773 Journal Homepage: - www.journalijar.com Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3690 DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3690 RESEARCH ARTICLE LEGAL PROTECTION OF CONVENTIONAL CRIME VICTIM (RESTORATIVE JUSTICE APPROACH). * Taswin Imransyah, Andi Sofyan, Syamsuddin Muchtar and Wiwie Heryani. Graduate School, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Manuscript Info Abstract ……………………. ……………………………………………………………… Manuscript History Received: 13 January 2017 Final Accepted: 06 February 2017 Published: March 2017 Key words:- Criminal Law, Conventional Crime, Restorative Justice The rights of crime victims, particularly crime victims or conventional crime in relation to the efforts to achieve restorative justice in the criminal justice system in Indonesia.This research was a socio-legal research, which orientation is focused on legal and non-legal aspects and the operation of law in society. The results of the research indicates that the essence of legal protection for crime victims in the handling of conventional crime in Indonesia is not yet optimal to take attention and gives legal protection to conventional crime victim in achieving fairness, expediency and legal certainty as a legal purpose. Conventional crime victims are an integral part of a legal system, which received less attention in obtaining their rights in the criminal justice system in Indonesia.Legal protection of conventional crime victim in Indonesia has been set in legislations, but it is not optimal because the mostly of legislation is more focused of legal protection to the perpetrators rather than the victims. As a result, the implementation of legal protection for conventional crime victim is not optimal, so it is very important the understanding of community, the victim and also law enforcement officers in the implementation of rules and mechanisms of legal protection against conventional crime victims to get their rights. Copy Right, IJAR, 2017,. All rights reserved. …………………………………………………………………………………………………….... Introduction:- Indonesia is a constitutional state. It is implied in the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia which makes specificity that Indonesia intended to protect the entire Indonesian nation and homeland, promote the welfare, educating the nation, and participatesin establish the world order. Indonesia as a constitutional state provides protection for its citizens by establishes an institution that able to provide justice in the form of free judiciary and impartial. It is based on the argument that every human being from birth bears the rights and obligations that are free and rights, and the holding power of a country should not diminish the meaning of freedom and the humanity rights. A form of protection against the society which should be done by the state is to provide legal protection through a process of judicial in a crime act or called as criminal justice system. Corresponding Author:- Taswin Imransyah. Address:- Graduate School, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia.