Protecting Children in Political Mobilization: A Maqāṣid Framework for Sustainable Child Rights Governance
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https://doi.org/10.51278/bil.v3i1.2600Keywords:
Child Protection; Political Mobilization; Indonesia; Maqāṣid Al-Sharī'ah; Child Rights GovernanceAbstract
This article examines child protection in political mobilization and public protests in Indonesia by integrating child rights, sustainability, and maqāṣid al-sharī'ah perspectives. The main issue addressed is the involvement of children in adult political spaces that may expose them to violence, arrest, psychological trauma, social stigma, and disruption of educational continuity. This study employs a qualitative-normative approach based on document analysis and literature review. The primary data are drawn from the KPAI/LNHAM report on the August–September 2025 protests and riots, while the theoretical analysis is supported by literature on child rights governance, juvenile justice, sustainable human development, and maqāṣid al-sharī'ah. The findings show that children's involvement in political mobilization is a structural child protection problem marked by digital mobilization, heroic narratives, socio-economic vulnerability, weak family-school protection, and the shifting position of children from victims to objects of legal enforcement. The study also finds that child protection governance remains reactive, sectoral, and unsupported by an integrated national database. The theoretical implication is the formulation of the Maqāṣid-Based Sustainable Child Protection model grounded in ḥifẓ al-nafs, ḥifẓ al-'aql, ḥifẓ al-nasl, ḥifẓ al-dīn, and ḥifẓ al-māl. Practically, this model recommends child-sensitive protest policing protocols, prevention of digital exploitation, legal and psychosocial assistance, guarantees of educational continuity, and an integrated national database for children affected by political mobilization.
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