Legal Protection of Children Forced to Work Becoming a Public Figure According to Law Number 35 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law Number 23 of 2002 on Child Protection

The rapid progress of information and communication technology can have a negative impact on children's development. The existence of child artists is often seen as developing interests and talents, being popular, having more financial resources, and living in prosperity. This is more a form of economic exploitation carried out by their parents when the activities of the child artist ignore their human rights as a child. The research aims to examine legal protection and law enforcement against perpetrators who force children to work as public figures. This research uses a type of normative juridical research, namely examining in depth the principles of law, statutory regulations, jurisprudence, and opinions of legal experts and comprehensively looking at the law. The legal sources used are primary law and secondary law, namely using a statutory approach or books, articles, and journals. The research results show that legal protection for children is an effort to protect children's rights from acts of discrimination and exploitation in any form to ensure children's survival and normal growth and development, both physically, mentally, and socially; Law enforcement is a bridge effort to provide firmness to perpetrators who cause trouble or discriminate against children in any way. Law enforcement seeks to provide sanctions against someone who commits acts of exploitation of children through statutory regulations.