Abstract :
Child neglect is one form of the worst treatment of the violence in a child. Based on human right point of view, neglect is violations and crime against children. Child neglect that is when the right of the child to grow up reasonably, right of the child to obtain a decent education, and the right to obtain aduquate health service was not met due negligence, lack of parental understood because of inability or because of deliberate action.The type of research that is done is the normatif legal research i.e. Research which focuses on positive form of legal norms and regulations. Types of data used include primary law, secondary legal materials and legal materials tertiary. Research result and discussion that has writers do, can be drawn the conclution that: the law No.23 of 2002 on child protection looks at the action as an act of child abandonment law violations that result in legal sanction are convicted with a can as set forth in law No.23 of 2002 on child protection. But in the case, the law enforcers are not acted to uphold the law No.23 of 2002 on child protection, in particular in the case of child abandonment was still under age.