The conviction of crime for underage children is a serious issue. This is
because it does not only violate the basic right of those children as what has been
issued in the Indonesian Decree of Children Custody no.23 in the year of 2002,
but this crime conviction could also give detrimental effects toward the children’s
psychological development. On the other hand, the Prosecutor, as the Law
Enforcement Figure, has a strong and binding power in law. Thus, in the case of
underage conviction, this prosecutor is one of the influential figures to upright law
and justice in Indonesia. The Problem formulation is what’s Public Prosecutor
contribution in children jurisdiction, especially in the case of crime conviction.
Are there any obstacles for the Public Prosecutor in the process of conviction for
underage children. The Research method is a normative research which gathers
various data from many writings that are closely related with the underage crime
and conviction issues, such as theoretical books or literatures, documents, Law
and Decree script, previous researches, and many other references. The
Conclusion is The role of Public Prosecutor is in the making the impeachment
letters, they have it’s own judgments, like “alasan pemberat” and “alasan
peringan”. The obstacles during the conviction process in the court are mainly
occurred in the impeachment letters like the evidence gathering of the criminal
record of the children and the appropriate punishment. Suggestion, the High
Public Attorney need to take action in order to increase professionalism for its
public prosecutor attorney that is in line with the development of Law and Decree
lately. The necessity to socialize the Decree of Children Custody no. 23 in the
year of 2002 and Decree of Children Jurisdiction no.3 in 1997 in order to increase
the law awareness of the society.