This legal research is about "Basic Considerations of Judges in Dropping Decisions
on Women of Abortion Rape Victims (Case Study of Decision Number
5/Pid.Sus.Anak/2018/PN Mbn)". The purpose of this legal research is to find out
whether it is the basis for judge’s consideration in making decisions on women rape
victims who have abortions in case decisions number 5/Pid.Sus.Anak/2018/PN Mbn.
Writing this thesis uses a type of normative legal research which is a research
conducted/focused on secondary data as the main data and primary data as support.
Primary legal materials are sourced from the Criminal Code, Law Number 35 Year
2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 23 Year 2002 concerning Child
Protection, Law Number 36 Year 2009 concerning Health, and Government
Regulation Number 61 Year 2014 about Reproductive Health. Secondary legal
material consists of legal opinions, doctrines, legal principles, and legal facts,
documents, and resource persons. While tertiary legal materials are obtained from the
Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, legal dictionaries, and other supporting dictionaries,
and can be in the form of journals and newspapers. The conclusion of this legal writing
is that the judge uses juridical and non-juridical considerations. Juridical
considerations at the first level use the demands of the Public Prosecutor, namely
Article 77A paragraph (1) Jo. Article 45A of Law Number 35 Year 2014 concerning
Amendment to Law Number 23 Year 2002 concerning Child Protection, and at the
appeal level, judges use the consideration that criminal acts of abortion are carried
out under forced power in accordance with Article 48 of the Criminal Code. Non-
Juridical considerations based on Article 197 paragraph (1) letter f of the Criminal
Procedure Code, the judge can explore the things that burden and alleviate the
defendant.
Keyword: Basic Considerations of Judges, Abortion, Rape Victims Women.