The objective of this research was to know the implementation of the law
protection toward wives as victims of the husbands’ mistreatments and to know
the constraints to be faced. It was a normative law research focused on positive
legal norm. The research use secondary data (law material) as the primary data.
The resources were taken from secondary data consisting of primary law materials
related to the protection toward the wives as the victims of the husbands’
mistreatments; legal norms in the form of legislation regulations; and the
secondary law materials in the form of law opinions taken from literatures (book),
news paper and magazines. The analysis method was used normatively.
Normative here meant that this research was based on the more spreading events
of mistreatment toward woman, especially the cruel treatment of husband in
family toward the wives in relation the effective rules. While mistreatment here
means the husbands’ injustice conduct, oppression, torture, and so on the wife.
Mistreatment in this paper was distinguished into usual, moderate and severe
treatments that could lead to death. Likewise, the law punishment will be different
depending on the severity of consequence of the action. The protection given to
the victims might be from the family, the police, the attorney, the court, the
advocate, the sosial institution, or the parties. The services given to the victim
might be in temporary or based on the protection order specified by the court;
health care that suitable with the medical decision; special treatment related to the
confidential status of the victim; accompaniment by the sosial workers; and
spiritual guidance. Mistreatment conducted by a husband to the wife is an action
subjected to law punishment. The enactment of the Act No 323 of 2004 on the
Abolition of Violence Action in family was perceived to be sufficient to give
protection to the victims, because it regulates the protection forms can be given to
the mentioned victims.