Jurnal Penelitian Hukum DE JURE, ISSN 1410-5632 Vol. 17 No. 1, Maret 2017: 13 - 28 13 ASPEK HUKUM KEBIJAKAN PENYULUHAN HUKUM DALAM RANGKA PELAKSANAAN SISTEM PERADILAN PIDANA ANAK (The Legal Aspect of Legal Capacity Building in The Juvenile Criminal Justice System) Marulak Pardede Peneliti pada Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Hukum Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan Hukum dan HAM Kementerian Hukum dan HAM Republik Indonesia Jl. H.R Rasunan Said Kav 4-5, Kuningan-Jakarta Selatan Email: marulakp@yahoo.com Tulisan diterima: 09-02-2017; Direvisi: 20-03-2017; Disetujui Diterbitkan: 20-03-2017 ABSTRACT In the development of Indonesian criminal justice system, particularly for the crime of minors, the term diversion is known for the transfer of juvenile case resolution from a criminal justice proceeding to other procedure outside the criminal justice. This diversion is possible upon the approval from the victim, and the crime charges are imprisonment below 7 (years) and not a repeat offense. However, if the victim opts out diversion, the legal proceeding will be continued. The seriousness of the offense, the child’s personal circumstance, or the situation when the offense took place or offender’s subsequent behavior may be considered by the judge whether to punish or to order certain actions based on the sense of justice and humanity. The age of the child, the seriousness of the offense may be used as the considerations whether to punish the child or not. This research used the juridical and sociological method of approach; the type of research is descriptive. The Tools used were Library and Document Studies from the primary and secondary resources. Through qualitative data analysis, the author makes the following statement: Law Number 11 of 2011 concerning Juvenile Criminal Justice System is a legal breakthrough in the criminal justice system because it is possible now to resolve a juvenile criminal case from criminal justice proceeding to a process outside criminal justice through diversion. The law also allows the community to play an active role. By building the capacity of the judicial system and other law enforcers, it is expected that an independent and free from the government‘s or other parties' influence justice system particularly Supreme Court, police and prosecutor office, will be established. They are also expected to be transparent, competent, accountable, involved, quick and accessible. Therefore, the judicial institution will be truly served as an independent body, free from the influence or involvement from the executives or other government institutions. The justice institution can be a defense of justice as expected by the community. Hence, it is important to have an integrated legal capacity building as this can fill the gap between the regulators in the central government and the regional government. Keywords: Juvenile Criminal Justice ABSTRAK Dalam perkembangan sistem hukum pidana di Indonesia, khususnya tindak pidana anak, dikenal dengan istilah diversi yaitu pengalihan penyelesaian perkara anak dari proses peradilan pidana ke proses di luar peradilan pidana. Diversi ini, dapat dilakukan atas persetujuan korban dan ancaman pidananya dibawah 7 (tujuh tahun) dan bukan merupakan pengulangan pidana. Namun demikian, apabila korban tidak menghendaki diversi maka proses hukumnya akan terus berlanjut. Berat ringannya perbuatan, keadaan pribadi anak, atau keadaan pada waktu dilakukan perbuatan atau yang terjadi kemudian dapat dijadikan dasar pertimbangan hakim untuk tidak menjatuhkan pidana atau mengenakan tindakan dengan