This research was entitled criminal responsibility for children in serious
traffic accident that results in death. This research was aimed to explain the
criminal responsibility for children as the traffic accident doers that caused
people dead in accidents. It was a normative legal research that focused on
norms of positive law in the form of legislation. This research was
conducted in the Police Administrative Unit of Yogyakarta. The results of
this research showed that the criminal responsibility for children in serious
traffic accident was imprisonment sanctions. The imprisonment sanctions
were in accordance with the present law in serious traffic accident. For
children, the demands on imprisonment penalties were reduced by 1/3 (one
third) of the demands on imprisonment sanctions stipulated in the Act of
Republic of Indonesia No 22 Year of 2009 About Traffic and Road
Transportation.