Jurnal Hukum Volkgeist Volume 4 Issue 1, December 2019 P-ISSN : 2528-360X, E-ISSN : 2621-6159 44 Legal protection against women from domestic violence in the Baubau city La Gurusi 1 , Edy Nurcahyo 2 Abstract Author’s Information: At the time of adulthood, women already have a desire for themselves to get married, with the hope of forming a happy family. Women consider marriage as a means of achieving complete self-identity as an adult woman. The fenomenon of domestic violence, especially against women, becomes a serious social problem. Law enforcement is required in order to eliminate domestic violence. The purpose of this study is to find out how the form of legal protection against women as victims of violence in households and to know what factors affect the occurrence of violence in the household. This research method using normative law research method. The data used is secondary data from the Baubau city resort police in 2017. Data were analysis using qualitative analysis. The results of the study indicate that the form of legal protection against women as victims of violence in households is the protection of preventive and repressive law. In two forms of legal protection, preventive law protection is more dominant than repressive. Keywords: role, social institutions, development 1 Law Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Buton, Indonesia (lagurusi7@gmail.com) 2 Law Department, Universitas Muhammadiyah Buton, Indonesia Article’s Information: DOI: https://doi.org/10.35326/volkge ist.v4i1.372 1. Introduction At the time of adulthood, women already have a desire for themselves to get married, with the hope of forming a happy family. Women consider marriage as a means of achieving complete self-identity as an adult woman (Saraswati, 2009). Many reasons were stated when deciding to get married. One of the main reasons is the existence of a sense of security as well as being protected. Adult women who began to release their self-dependence from parent figures, began to be attracted to adult male figures who were able to provide a sense of security while loving him (Lestari, 2012). According to Law Number 1 of 1974, marriage is an inner and outer bond between a man and a woman as husband and wife with the aim of forming a happy and eternal family (household) based on the Godhead of the Almighty. In reality, the purpose of the marriage is often not achieved because in the marriage often domestic violence occurs, namely violence that occurs in the household by the husband or wife against their partners (Saraswati, 2009; Soeroso, M, 2010). Violence in this household is very contrary to the original purpose of the marriage. Even though the family is an ideal social institution to develop the potential that exists in each individual, in reality the family is often a container for the emergence of various cases of irregularities or other illegal activities that cause misery or suffering committed by one family member against other family members, such as persecution rape and murder. This situation is commonly referred to as Domestic Violence (Syukur, 2011).