Abstract

Legal protection research on women as victims of domestic violence in Indonesia aims to identify and analyze legal protection efforts against women as victims of domestic violence, know the constraints of law enforcement on women as victims of domestic violence, and analyze legal protection solutions to women as victims of domestic violence. The method used was empirical approach method. Legal materials used were primary and secondary data, Respondents were victims of domestic violence, police, prosecutors and judges with nonrandom sampling technique. Primary data were obtained by conducting interviews with freely guided techniques, and literature study. The result of the effort to protect the law against women as victims of Domestic Violence in East Luwu District of Indonesia was conducted in Preventive and Repressive. Law enforcement obstacle is that the victims are not open to the apparatus, so that there many victims did not report and hide the case of domestic violence they experienced with the reasons for the maintenance the family unity, for fear of divorce. The solution made by the government in East Luwu District is to provide assistance and counseling to the victims to solve the problems, create shelters, and socialize directly to the community about Law on Domestic Violence.